A Man Of Sad Proportions Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

A man of sad proportions
But well built
In intellect emotion and the rest:
He did not miss
To have in him that Hellenic soul
That on the shores of the Aegean
Heard Aeschylus and Homer sing
And
Was ennobled by so many humans
In drama
Aeschylus Euripides and Sophocles:
In history Thucydides
In philosophy Plato, Aristotle, Socrates
In science Euclid, Archimedes.
And then so many more
In so many disciplines
Where human to himself said
‘Let me be, civilized and lord
Of Earth attempt in as proportion direct’
That spirit of primeval Earth
Still breezes over us today.
That spirit of primeval Earth
Thousands of years
Generations, centuries has
Remained with us and
Of us been.
We must continue and then
That in ever-increase.