"Deception"

I came across this poem by C.S. Lewis last night, and I liked it!

Deception

"Iron will eat the world's old beauty up.

Girder and grid and gantry will arise,

Iron forest of engines will arise,

Criss-cross of iron crotchet. For your eyes

No green or growth. Over all, the skies

Scribbled from end to end with boasts and lies.

Clamour shall clean put out the voice of wisdom,

The printing-presses with their clapping wings,

Fouling your nourishment. Harpy wings,

Filling your minds all day with foolish things,

Will tame the eagle Thought: till she sings

Parrot-like in her cage to please dark kings.

The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought,

And fools crying, Because it has begun,

It will continue as it has begun!

The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run

Faster for ever. The old age is done,

We have new lights and see without the sun."