Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DUST AND DESTINY, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON


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DUST AND DESTINY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dusts of ages cover
Last Line: Of oblivion.
Subject(s): Fate; Destiny


The dusts of ages cover
All the "Cities of the Plain"—
Babylon and Nineveh and Ur.
The one-time fertile soil
That fed the nations of the past
Now forms their common sepulcher,
While senseless Waste today
Rips from the womb
Of Mother Earth the unborn
Life of ages yet to come—
Brings on, doom-fraught,
The rising blast
To sweep the modern nations
With the dust-heaps of the past.

Naught but proven knowledge,
Directing honest toil,
And the moving thought
Of peace on earth,
Good will towards men
Can save the soil—
Perhaps the soul—
From the dusty destiny
Of Oblivion.





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