[THOMAS ANDREWS]
In every age mankind attempts
To fabricate great works, at once
Magnificent and impossible
On desert sands, from mountains of stone, a pyramid!
From flying bu*tresses alone, a wall of light
A chapel ceiling screaming one man's ecstasy!
One man's ecstasy
Miracles them all! China's endless wall
Stonehenge, the Parthenon, the duomo
The aqueducts of Rome
We did not attempt to make with mammoth blocks of stone
A giant pyramid - no, not a pyramid
Nor Gothic walls that radiate with light
Our task was to dream upon and then create
A floating city!
Floating city
A human metropolis
A complete civilization!
Sleek! and fast!
At once a poem and the perfection of physical engineering
At once a poem and the perfection of physical engineering...