"On the Babel-Builders"

Sure, if those Babel-builders had thought good

To raise their heaven-high tower before the flood,

The wiser sort of people might deride

Their folly, and that folly had salved their pride;

Or had their faiths but enterprised that plot,

Their hearts had finished what their hands could not;

'Twas not for love of heaven: nor did they aim

So much to raise a building as a name:

They that by works shall seek to make intrusion

To heaven, find nothing but their own confusion.

~ Francis Quarles