We sliced the skies with roaring rocket knives
And came to dream beside these slumbrous seas
Of planets beyond, beyond the Pleiades.
We tethered time to tame our tide-race lives
And shot our ships toward black-night waves of suns
And comets. Ah! We forgot the limitations.
For now in strangered exile do we weep;
Thoughtless, pointless, nothing is our sleep;
No thundering, sudden season storms exist;
No turbulent tides mercurial moons resist;
No raging rivers plunder and thrust and slip
Down mountains of ice and bitter fire-laden frost;
No angled lightning’s angry cracking whip
Surrounds us, and Oh, oh, the uncounted cost!
We stale and spoil and rust; we sicken and yearn,
A sorrowing race, for loved lost Annapurna.
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