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TOWARD SPACE, by                    
First Line: Clutch the granite earth
Last Line: In spiral flight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


Clutch the granite earth.
Weight your feet with stones.
Brace your back against
Her planetary bones.

But clutch and weight and brace
Avail you not at all,
Once you look toward space,
You reel. You fall—

Forever prone to lie
On rigid face
While juggled fire-balls fly
Through frigid space.

Or else, one day, to rise
On wings of light
To the apex of the skies
In spiral flight.





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