# The flying parliament, and other poems Author: Babcock, Edwina Stanton, 1875-1965 Genre: Category: Poetry Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74264 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+flying+parliament%2C+and+other+poems+Babcock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary _Out past the Highlands’ smoke and Autumn gold, The great gray ships on secret orders steam; Battalioned boys their dawn-lit land behold Drifting astern, like towers in a dream; They watch the havened harbor lights that gleam Speechless farewell, too tender to be told-- Until within their breasts austere and bold, The former days remote and alien seem, And they, the fathers of a Day supreme. Thus, visioning their service--to a man-- They grim in their stern blitheness, sail to War. Yea, while we sleep, in one night’s star-lit span-- Youth leaves our shores--to face the Minotaur._ ## Chapters - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flying-parliament-and-other-poems-74264/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flying-parliament-and-other-poems-74264/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flying-parliament-and-other-poems-74264/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flying-parliament-and-other-poems-74264/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-flying-parliament-and-other-poems-74264/chapters/5/index.md)