Destroyers and Other Verses/Homing Wings

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HOMING WINGS

Poised like the black-winged swallow born to roamAnd find a living in the ambient air,We sacrificed our homeFor unpolluted realms of natural law.Must we despairBecause the neutral tissue of our dreamsDissolves like ravelled mist before the heat,And at our feetThe radiant prospect of this ancient land,Grey hamlets, happy fields, sequestered streams,Unconquerable stand?E'en the world-wandering bird suspends her nestBeneath the overhanging cottage evesIn fecund rest;And breezes ocean-bornIn brooding oaks scarce stir the crumpled leaves,Where poppies flame among the ripening corn.So we return to worship homely things,That filled our baby hands, ancestral springsResurgent and intenseStirring the reverent heartOf childhood's innocence.
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