Fragments of Olympian Gossip

"Fragments of Olympian Gossip" is a poem that Nikola Tesla composed in the late 1920s for his friend the German poet and mystic George Sylvester Viereck.

"Below, on Earth, they work at full blast And news are coming in thick and fast.

"Too bad, Sir Isaac, they dimmed your renown And turned your great science upside down.

Now a long haired crank, Einstein by name, Puts on your high teaching all the blame.

My followers are of stronger mind And I am content to stay behind, Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.