"While it is true that the guns will effect a little useful weeding, I am furious with chagrin to think that the Minds, which were to have excelled the civilization of two thousand years, are being annihilated—and bodies, the products of aeons of Natural Selection, melted down to pay for political statues." Introduction, p. 19

"I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned/Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed." Strange Meeting, p. 36

"Merry it was to laugh there—/Where death becomes absurd and life absurder." Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, p. 39

"But the old man would not so, but slew his son,/And half the seed of Europe, one by one." The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, p. 42

"For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid;/Therefore, not loath, we lie...