Let it be invisible, We shall see and hear as well. Let it hide in ways unknown, We shall teach it to cut stone. If it lives where planets reel, We shall make it turn a wheel; And call it from the plunging roar Of cataracts, to close a door. After us, let it be said, "They taught the whirlwind to bake bread; "Gave mute space a clacking tongue, "Gave the smothering sea a lung, "Made the mountain tie their shoes, "The lightning walk by two and twos; "And worshipped high above the square "Wonder, in a blue plush chair." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE WAY (PHILADELPHIA, 1794) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON IN THIS DARK HOUSE by EDWARD DAVISON THE HERITAGE by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 36. LIFE-IN-LOVE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: MITIGATIONS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |