Or : remem­ber, G. S.
begins « Making of Americans »
With a quote From Nicomachus’ father –
With patient father and angry son –
That she said,
« How can you know
More than you do know
And we are still in the sha­dow
of expla­na­tion, »
Add to her insight (« in all per­iods before
Things had been said
But never explai­ned.
So then they began to explain »)
Long before « before »
Too, they had explai­ned a long time.