AND DID THOSE FEET?


And did those feet in ancient times
Walk upon Kashmir 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 life-in-death
That Will became the pseudonym?
Who said the earth was really round?
How can we know it isn flat?
Have Darwin cogitations really found
That man 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?
13