Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PERISCOPES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: As the up-to-date destroyer
Last Line: Let us smash our periscopes!
Subject(s): Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats


As the up-to-date destroyer,
Underneath the waters green,
Travels swiftly through the ocean
In his crafty submarine,
Up he thrusts a curious funnel,
Lest in nether gloom he grope,
And surveys the watery surface
Through a safe-eyed periscope.

Thus we modern men, suspicious,
Through the Sea of Living glide,
Far beneath the surface waters
And the frankly swinging tide,
And, if we would see our brothers
And the world's great brother-hope,
We can only gaze upon them
Through a little periscope.

Let us back to better living,
Surface living, friendly, wise,
On the trustful, open billows,
Underneath the open skies!
Let us, hasting to the future
As its glorious morning opes,
Sail in brotherhood together:
Let us smash our periscopes!





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