The Queen Mary
For ages you were rock, far below light, Crushed, without shape, earth’s unregarded bone. Then Man in all the marvel of his might Qnamed you out and burned you from the stone. Then, being pared to essence, you were nought But weight and hardness, body without nerve; Then Man, in all the marvel of his thought, Smithied you into form of leap and curve; And took you, so, and bent you to his vast, great world of passionate design, Curve after changing curving, braced and rnasst To stand all tumult that can tumble brine, And left you, this, a rampart of a ship, Long as a street and lofty as a tower, Ready to glide in thunder from the slip And shear the sea with majesty of power.. 1 I long to see you leaping to the urge Of the great engines, rolling as you go, Parting the seas in sunder in a surge, 1 . Shredding a trackway like a mile of snow.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 34, 3 November 1934, Page 20
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166The Queen Mary Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 34, 3 November 1934, Page 20
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