The magical realm of the Victorian era <br />aeroplanes whistled through cleaner air <br />England throned the desert Sahara <br /> <br />The exquisite globe of the world frontier <br />The modern idea was set to be found <br />Discovered by men in their churches in prayer <br /> <br />Ears were hearkened to the brand new juke box <br />They ate and drank and listened to rumors <br />Of college visits and the league of Red Sox <br /> <br />They rode home in their Studebakers and Stanhopes <br />With electric motors and 54 inch tread <br />And Everest waited, the mountainous slopes <br /> <br />Claude Debussy's La Mer, the seaman's affair <br />the fiddle for the Celts and bagpipes for the scotch <br />as they march to war in Gaul, the New World unaware <br /> <br />then, fall in love, under the stars: in the month of June <br />where two lovers never part, never break their hearts <br />making love, under the light of the silvery moon<br /><br />Annie Cordelia Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/b-a-victorian-summer-b/
