The Fable of the Moon [SSC5 POETRY CHALLENGE]

In the time that the world was new yet, And inexperienced were the people before, And were not the wiles that are now; At the foot of a lofty mountain, whose summit Appeared to touch the sky, a people, which I cannot show, lived in the same valley; Those who high saw them from the low hillocks, Believing that they were touching the moon, Behind them came with hasty steps. Believing that they were touching the moon (soon) Who several times observing the unequal Moon, now with horns or without, now full or wan, Turning the sky to the natural course; And believing he could from the supreme Part of the mount to reach it, and see it How it grows and how in itself it presses; [Faster] Who with basket, who with sack for the Mountain, begin to run up, Greedy all in competition to want it. Those who high saw them from the low hillocks, Believing that they were touching the moon, Behind them came with hasty steps. Believing that they were touching the moon (soon) [counter melody] Seeing then, that they had not come Near to her, they fell to the ground lax, Wishing in vain that they had stayed down. (Wishing in vain that they had stayed down) (stayed down) Those who high saw them from the low hillocks, Believing that they were touching the moon, Behind them came with hasty steps. Believing that they were touching the moon (soon) This mountain is the wheel of Fortune, In whose summit the unsuspecting crowd thinks: That every good is nor is there any. [Fade-Out] That every good is nor is there any. [End]