Chapter XXIII

THE CELESTIAL CLIMAX

A YEAR from then it did!

It awoke the World with its challenging
roar, silencing for ever, let us hope,
the racket of guns upon this dear planet,
leading man in future to seek his conquests
in more transcendent ways, even
outside Earth's atmosphere, as it took
its pioneer flight again from the misty
top of old Mount Greylock.

The World and his wife were there to
see: scientists from the four quarters
of the globe--Earth's great ones.

And other spellbound spectators, too:
Una, the White Birch Group, their Boy
Scout comrades--Stud fast developing
into the type of hotspur who wanted
to take passage for the moon--all massed
in such a stupendous Get Together as
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