Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — Icarus; Now, as Then. [ARTICLE]

Icarus; Now, as Then.

He soared as surely as an eagle does. Higher and higher toward the zenith still; And as he rose a chant came back to us, An iron montone of human will Made audible. When listening was vain. Breathless we followed him with straln- , Ing eyes, Adventurer who claimed as man’s domain, Amazed and impotent, the conquered skies. “The Prince of Air is tamed! What hinders men,” We cried, “from traversing that upper world in quest of unimaginable things?” From awful silence came the answer then, f As like a challenge at our feet was hurled Our champion dead, with broken, silent wings. ’• —Amelia Johnson Burr in the Century Magazine.