The Coming World
By George Sterling
We do but cross a threshold into day.
Beauty we leave behind,
A deeper beauty on our path to find.
And higher glories to illume the way.
The door we close behind us is the
Past:
Our sons shall find a fairer door at
last.
A world reborn awaits us. Years to
come
Shall know its grace and good,
When wars shall end in endless
brotherhood,
And birds shall build in the cannon long
since dumb.
~George Sterling, Christian Science Monitor, Feb 2nd,1923, pg 17