God of our Fathers, what is man!
That thou towards him with hand so various,
Or might I say contrarious,
Temperst thy providence through his short course,
Not evenly, as thou rul'st
The Angelic orders and inferiour creatures mute,
Irrational and brute.
The Angelic orders and inferiour creatures mute,
Irrational and brute.
-- John Milton, Samson Agonistes, 670
