Read history: so learn your place in Time
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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Read history: so learn your place in Time;
And to sleep: all this was done before;
We do better, fouling every shore;
We disinfect, we do not probe, the crime.
Our engines plunge into the seas, they
Above our atmosphere: we grow not more
Profound as approach the ocean’s floor;
Our flight is lofty, it not sublime.
Yet long ago this Earth by struggling
Was scuffed, was scraped by mouths that bubbled mud;
will be so again, and yet again;
Until we our poison to its bud
And root, and there it: until then,
Earth will be warmed each winter man’s blood.
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