Perché Pensa? Pensando s'Invecchia

To spend uncounted years of pain,Again, again, and yet again,In working out in heart and brain The problem of our being here;To gather facts from far and near,Upon the mind to hold them clear,And, knowing more may yet appear,Unto one's latest breath to fearThe premature result to draw--Is this the object, end and law, And purpose of our being here?