And did those feet in ancient times

Walk upon Kashmir’s rolling hills?

And did some Brahmin from the jungle climes

Instruct Him in the Vedic skills?

And did Neil Armstrong really tread,

Upon the rocky, lunar face?

And were those famous words, famously read

Upon the moon, or in some other place?

Within some secret basement room

Were pictures cunningly contrived

To seem as if men walked upon the moon

(Who jumped and hopped and leapt and dived?)

Who was the author of Macbeth?

Did Francis Bacon bear the pen?

Or was it through Kit Marlowe’s life-in-death

That “Will” became the pseudonym?

Who said the Earth was really round?

How can we know it isn’t flat?

Has Darwin’s cogitations really found

That man’s a mammal? (like a rat!)

Did Einstein truly conquer time

And space (through relativity?)

Or was such hybris deemed a fatal crime

Against our primitive ennui?