Mr 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 buttresses alone
A wall of light!
A chapel ceiling
Screaming one man's ecstasy!
One man's ecstsasy
Miracles them all!
China's endless wall
Stonehenge, the Parthenon, the Duomo
The aqueducts of Rome
We did not attmept 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