Flight more auspicious than the flight of cranes

In Homer's Troyland, or than eagles flying

Toward Imaus when the midnight wanes.

Victorious flight! symbol of man defying

Low dungeons of the spirit, darkness, chains.

Flight beyond superstition and the reigns

Of tyrannies where thought of man should be

Swift as his thought is free.

Flight of an era born to-day

That puts the past and all its dead away.