The second and third stanzas are comparing what a hard
working man is to the ideal of man's creation. The second stanza starts with
"Is this the thing the Lord God made..." and the third stanza ends
with "Cries protest to the Powers that made the world, / A protest that is
also prophecy." ... The poem seems to be saying that humanity isn't living
up to what God wanted, or what he promised, and that he could have and should
have done better, or prevented the world from allowing man to get to this
state. In these stanzas and throughout the rest of the poem I think there is a
lot of responsibility placed on humanity as well... that we will be judged for
what we allow to happen to each other.
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