we are astounding our ancestors with dreams of fire
we are astounding our ancestors with dreams of fire.
metal melting down into
capsules of thought or knives of waking.
the autumn of mankind's intellectual desire.

and electrons pass electrons on a cable of words.
we draw ever closer to the wire.
we are astounding our ancestors with dreams of fire.

and lenses like diamonds draw the stars ever closer.
and the atom we have known, we have split
asunder, we have tamed, we have healed;
& we have stitched life onto life & drawn
life apart.

we have felled cities & drawn cities up from infertile
plains of waste.
we have stretched one mighty arm like a collosus
and touched the moon- tomorrow, the stars-
on steeds driven by fire. we have known the heavenly choir.
& we are astounding our ancestors with dreams of fire.