Sophism and Epistemology

How the sophists play at golden
Ends of civilizations. For
The prosperities of those men
Who were their elite forbearers
Did build with Reason's Sun and Rain.
The joyful sun, a Priori...
Sad rains, a Posteriori.
Which, the civilization springs
Like the grass, when both are balanced.
Yet, from both Science or Phenom
Does the sophist never know, faced
With unknowns, void by faith's phantom.
Aught, Science and Phenomena
Cause sweet wisdom's diaspora.  

History's witness
And being's ontology
And Cause's Effect
Are the measures of all good
Philosophy: listen; look.

It is not always about ends and means, but, sometimes, that things are what they are.