Page:Dreams and Dust, by Don Marquis.djvu/33



on with thunder and with steel
 * And black against the dawn

The whirling armies clash and reel. . ..
 * A wind, and they are gone
 * Like mists withdrawn,
 * Like mists withdrawn!

Like clouds withdrawn, like driven sands,
 * Earth's body vanisheth:

One solid thing unconquered stands,
 * The ghost that humbles death.
 * All else is breath,
 * All else is breath!

Man rose from out the stinging slime,
 * Half brute, and sought a soul,

And up the starrier ways of time,
 * Half god, unto his goal,