Poem June 27, 1908 Issue

[Written for the Sentinel.]

BABEL

GERTRUDE RING.

Ages ago, when mortal mind was young,
But not innocuous, it essayed to build
To heaven a tower. The earth was of one tongue,
And on the plain of Shinar it was willed
To do the deed. "And they had brick for stone,
And slime had they for mortar." We may smile
At their conceit, and how 'twas overthrown,
And yet be building Babels all the while
With crumbling rubble of material thought,
Human affection, wealth, and transient fame,
Hoping that by our structure—when 'tis wrought—
We may reach heaven. So like it is the same,
This effort, to the one we do contemn.
Our false beliefs give dire confusion birth
Because "from thence did the Lord scatter them
Abroad upon the face of all the earth."

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