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First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky
Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War


TOWERS — eternal towers against the sky:
Dawn-touched, noon-flamed, night-mantled and moon-flecked!
The tenuous dreams of man, the architect,
Imagining in stone what may not die
Though man, the anarchist, dream enginery
For its destruction: towers of intellect,
Towers of aspiration — torn and wrecked,
Profaned by robber sacrilege: ah, why?

Reason shall ask, and answer shall be given;
Justice shall ask, and deal to those insane
Their dark asylums, but to those — the vain
Of lustful power, how shall their souls be shriven? —
They shall be raised on infamy's renown
And from their towers of tyranny hurled down.





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