Darlene,
Except for the last line, which sounds like an intimacy with
oppression, I would GUESS Aldous Huxley. I hope you are soliciting guesses!
Ken Cooper
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Darlene Sybert wrote:
> This seemed like a good description of modern life when I read it:
>
> These mighty workmen of our later age,
> Who, with a broad highway, have ovrbridged
> The froward chaos of futurity,
> Tamed to their bidding; they who have the skill
> To manage books, and things, and make them act
> On infant minds as surely as the sun
> Deals with a flower; the keepers of our time,
> The guides and wardens of our faculties,
> Sages who in their prescience would control
> All accidents, and to the very road
> Which they have fashioned would confine us down,
> Like engines...
>
> Darlene Sybert
> University of Missouri, Columbia (English Dept)
> ****************************************************************************
> ...in the unreasoning progress of the world
> A wiser spirit is at work for us,
> A better eye...most prodigal
> Of blessings, and most studious of our good,
> Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours..
> *****************************************************************************
>
>
>
Except for the last line, which sounds like an intimacy with
oppression, I would GUESS Aldous Huxley. I hope you are soliciting guesses!
Ken Cooper
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Darlene Sybert wrote:
> This seemed like a good description of modern life when I read it:
>
> These mighty workmen of our later age,
> Who, with a broad highway, have ovrbridged
> The froward chaos of futurity,
> Tamed to their bidding; they who have the skill
> To manage books, and things, and make them act
> On infant minds as surely as the sun
> Deals with a flower; the keepers of our time,
> The guides and wardens of our faculties,
> Sages who in their prescience would control
> All accidents, and to the very road
> Which they have fashioned would confine us down,
> Like engines...
>
> Darlene Sybert
> University of Missouri, Columbia (English Dept)
> ****************************************************************************
> ...in the unreasoning progress of the world
> A wiser spirit is at work for us,
> A better eye...most prodigal
> Of blessings, and most studious of our good,
> Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours..
> *****************************************************************************
>
>
>