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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARD THE MILLENIUM, by FRANCES HORODAS
First Line: They come to sip, they come to trip
Last Line: The living and dead as it bursts overhead.
Subject(s): Death; Missiles; Dead, The; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles
First Line: They come to sip, they come to trip
Last Line: The living and dead as it bursts overhead.
Subject(s): Death; Missiles; Dead, The; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles
THEY come to sip, they come to trip
Fantasticly at Tango-Tea—
Waxen floor is glistening,
Perfumed throng is listening
To hear a strain and dance again:
Butterflies, they flit and glide;
Life is fleet with Joy astride.
The horrible stench of dead in the trench;
An air-rending whistle; the tune of a missile
Swift tearing through space a victim to trace;
And shrapnel, death spewing, is ever reviewing
The living and dead as it bursts overhead.
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