Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE, by ROBERT FROST


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First Line: Sarcastic science she would like to know
Last Line: I have a theory, but it hardly does
Subject(s): Science; Scientists


Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
In her complacent ministry of fear,
How we propose to get away from here
When she has made things so we have to go
Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
To some star off there, say, a half light-year
Through temperature of absolute zero?
Why wait for Science to supply the how
When any amateur can tell it now?
The way to go away should be the same
As fifty million years ago we came-
If anyone remembers how that was
I have a theory, but it hardly does.





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