He'd compel us to drink water and restrain us when to wed agog;
In fact he is the model of a Modern German pedagogue.
I've all the god-like attributes, omniscient, ubiquitous,
I mean to squelch free impulse, which is commonly iniquitous.
But what's the good of being Chief Inspector of the Universe,
And prying into everything from pompous Law to puny verse,
If everything or nearly so, shows a confounded tendency
_To go right of its own accord_? My Masterful Resplendency
Would radiate aurorally, a world would gaze on trustingly
If only things in general wouldn't go on so disgustingly.
Where _is_ the pull of being Earth's Inspector autocratical,
When the Progress _I_'d be motor of seems mainly automatical?