The need we share

If all the molten magma of the Earth,
Erupting, could disperse  abroad its fearsome fire,
Destroying in its flow the precious worth
Of air and sea and land in grinding gyre;

And if tempestuous winds, world-wide unloosed,
Could propagate the fury of their power
That in its heedless violence reduced
To rubble humblest home and proudest tower -

Then  we, who now confront a total war
That threatens termination of our kind,
Must strengthen  our commitment to implore
We leave the doomed idealists behind,
And from their failing thought  no more imbue
The teachings that deny our globe its due.