Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROGRESS, by CATHARINE MACADAM


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PROGRESS, by                    
First Line: Man struck a green hill and chiseled its tower
Last Line: He molded it into an altar -- to god!
Subject(s): Progress; Worship


Man struck a green hill and chiseled its tower;
Man dammed up blue streams for infinite power;
Man took a tall tree and tore it apart;
Man cleft the brown earth and reached for its heart.

From stone Man built walls that no one might see;
Then Man took the power and cut up the tree;
And after he'd sifted the gold from the sod,
He molded it into an altar -- to God!





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