Limitation
	75 The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety and Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. 76 And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help---for It As impotently rolls as you or I. previous              next
Vedder's note: That of man's faculties is symbolized by the Eagle chained to the rock; and the irrevocability of the laws of nature by the stars bound together and with their courses rigidly defined through space.