If Politics Quotes

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Quote #4

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! (31-32)

Okay, so the speaker probably means "Earth" in a general sense here, but in a poem inspired by an invasion? That screams for a political reading. The poem's suggestions are partly an instruction manual for controlling land (cities, regions, countries, the world, the universe, and quite possibly beyond).