text:  Let man no more the will of Jove withstand And Jove the bolt lets fall! 12 If in the woes of Actual Human Life-- If thou could'st see the serpent strife Which the Greek Art has made divine in stone-- Could'st see the writhing limbs the livid cheek Note every pang and hearken every shriek Of some despairing lost Laocoon The human nature would thyself subdue To share the human woe before thine eye-- Thy cheek would pale and all thy soul be true To Man's great Sympathy