From the German by Lord Bulwer-Lytton
“TAKE the world,” cried the God from his heaven
  To men—“I proclaim you its heirs;
To divide it amongst you ’t is given:
  You have only to settle the shares.”

Each takes for himself as it pleases,
  Old and young have alike their desire:
The harvest the husbandman seizes;
  Through the wood...