Wichita State University - Parnassus Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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Man, introverted man, having crossed In passage and but a little with the nature of things this latter century Has begot giants, but being taken up Like a maniac with self-love and inward conflicts cannot manage his hybrids. Being used to deal with edgeless dreams, Now he's bred knives on nature turns them also inward: they have thirsty points though. His mind forbodes his own destruction: Actaeon who saw the goddess naked among leaves and his hounds tore him. A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle, A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much? . . .They have done what never was done before. Not as a people takes a land to love it and be fed. A little, according to need and love, and again a littleg sparing the country tribes mixing Their blood with theirs, their minds with all the rocks and rivers, their flesh with the soil, no, without hunger Wasting the world and your own labor, without love possessing, not even your hands to the dirt but plows Like blades of knives, heartless machines, houses of steel, using and despising the patient earth. . . Oh, as a rich man eats a forest for profit and a field for vanity, so you came west and raped The continent and brushed its people to death. Without need, the weak skirmishing hunters, and without mercy. . .