Reinforcements

Marianne Moore

The vestibule to experience is not to

 Be exalted into epic grandeur. These men are going

To their work with this idea, advancing like a school of fish through

Still water—waiting to change the course or dismiss

 The idea of movement, till forced to. The words of the Greeks

Ring in our ears, but they are vain in comparison with a sight like this.

The pulse of intention does not move so that one

 Can see it, and moral machinery is not labelled, but

The future of time is determined by the power of volition.