Amazing Stories/Volume 01/Number 05/Aspiration
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Aspiration
By Leland S. Copeland
Over the dark, thin nebular drift,
Waiting the warmth and light;
Over the writhing, blazing sun,
And planets, half day, half night;
Comets that race with a trail of fire,
Asteroids whirling along—
Something is brooding, impelling;
Something that cannot be wrong.
Waiting the warmth and light;
Over the writhing, blazing sun,
And planets, half day, half night;
Comets that race with a trail of fire,
Asteroids whirling along—
Something is brooding, impelling;
Something that cannot be wrong.
Up from the unseen germ and cell,
Potent with glory unborn;
Up from the fish of the Devon sea,
And saurians feeding at morn;
Jungle glooms where the lion lurks,
And dark-eyed cave girl's song—
Something is moving, compelling;
Something that cannot do wrong.
Potent with glory unborn;
Up from the fish of the Devon sea,
And saurians feeding at morn;
Jungle glooms where the lion lurks,
And dark-eyed cave girl's song—
Something is moving, compelling;
Something that cannot do wrong.
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