FAR road for words that rush,
Arrowing space,
Swifter than meteors flush
Star-road in race.
Wireless! Tireless, leaping the wave!
Roger Bacon laughs in his grave.
One road, o’er-steep to climb
Since world began,
Winged in our wonder-time,
Sun-road for man.
Air-ship! Fair ship, soaring the blue!
Galileo had burned for you.
Dread road for Freedom’s sons,
Sworn to release
Life from the threat of guns,
Red road to peace.
New knights! true knights! gleam of God’s blade!
Lincoln leads in the Last Crusade.
(Katharine Lee Bates)
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