Arts & Sciences

The Scientific Aspiration

by Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

From The Golden Whales of California (1920)

Arts & Sciences

Would that the dry hot wind called Science came,
Forerunner of a higher mystic day,
Though vile machine-made commerce clear the way--
Though nature losing shame should lose her veil,
And ghosts of buried angel-warriors wail
The fall of Heaven, and the relentless Sun
Smile on, as Abraham's God forever dies--
Lord, give us Darwin's eyes!

MLA

Lindsay, Vachel. “The Scientific Aspiration.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/191/.

Chicago

Lindsay, Vachel. “The Scientific Aspiration.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/191/.

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