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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER
First Line: Another world we have, we that have made
Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid?
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation
First Line: Another world we have, we that have made
Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid?
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation
ANOTHER world we have, we that have made
Desert and pit and battlefield of earth,
Ravished her treasures, bought for riches dearth,
Stifled her fountains, plucked away her shade;
We that have poisoned with the cities' reek
All her fair rivers, stol'n the cataract's flow,
Trampled in greed her helpless ones and low,
And in blood thirstiness have slain her weak.
Now in our grasp almost, Thy wind and cloud,
Thy winged fugitives, Thy snow and rain;
Sunbeam and starbeam, yea, Thy lightnings proud,
We have stretched out our hand for, not in vain.
Seeing what desolation we have made
Of Thy first gift -- Lord, art Thou not afraid?
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