NEVER BEFORE…

Never before has knowledge been so written to weather time.
Never before has language encompassed so large a store.
Never before such multitudes recording the thoughts of minds.
Never before so teeming and vast that restless sea.

Never before human outlook so promulgated “knowledge is all”.           Never before has science so mirrored the transient gardens.
Never before old writings so much chaff on time’s granary floor.
Never before so buried the lost pages of past golden seasons.

And never before, as we gather, so it seems the less we learn.