Progress [poem by Louis Esson]

[Editor: This poem by Louis Esson was published in Red Gums and Other Verses (1912).]

Progress.

Folk-song, temple, sacred trees,
In the early world were these.
Red brick chimneys, trade, machines,
Man has learned what Progress means.

Source:
Louis Esson, Red Gums and Other Verses, Melbourne: Fraser & Jenkinson, 1912, page 23