A road-less land, it waited desolate <br />For Romans, but none came. <br />A native engineer designed <br />A highway out of steel, in sections, <br />A ramrod laid across the land. <br /> <br />The road was ready now, <br />But it was shunned <br />By all but soldiers. <br />Straight across the land they marched, <br />The Roman soldiers.<br /><br />Ananta Madhavan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/power-highway/
