12 DECEMBER 1952, Page 10

Coming Closer

Across a gray autumnal sky At setting of the sun I saw an aeroplane go by, And thought what Man has done.

Man was from man so far apart That none of us could say What might be in another's heart, Dwelling so far away.

Sundered by sea and mountain-wall : 0 ! 'Twas a thousand pities. Now we are brought so close that all Can bomb each other's cities.

* It doesn't.—Ed., Spectator.

DUNSANY.