16 JULY 1932, Page 19

Poetry

Piatiletka

OUR castles in the air must now be built as stone for air is ne'er so fair as stone and flesh and bone

transmuting air to stone is done by Act alone for Dream breeds air of air beyond all here and there the castle built on sand is broken by the wind no fhathered stone can rest on air and there stand fast stone castles founded on the rock withstand the wind and Time's slow shock a rigid five-year-plan of Act transmutes these airy dreams to fact.

EDOUARD RODITI.