Thomas RhodesVery well, you liberals,And navigators into realms intellectual,You sailors through heights imaginative,Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets,You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits,And Tennessee Claflin Shopes—You found with all your boasted wisdomHow hard at the last it isTo keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms.While we, seekers of earth’s treasuresGetters and hoarders of gold,Are self-contained, compact, harmonized,Even to the end.
Very well, you liberals,And navigators into realms intellectual,You sailors through heights imaginative,Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets,You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits,And Tennessee Claflin Shopes—You found with all your boasted wisdomHow hard at the last it isTo keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms.While we, seekers of earth’s treasuresGetters and hoarders of gold,Are self-contained, compact, harmonized,Even to the end.