Wonder of Aviation
IMAGINE the sensations of one who, exploring or voyaging, might have been out ot commumtuiion with the world uunng the last three years, and who, on his return might have been taken to witness one ot the recent aviation mtots in England or France. Could anything have been more astounding than what he must have seen then? . . . Straining his eye for the Erst glimpse of a bipmne that has disappeared in the zenith, when he at last perceives it, he may indeed feel
‘like sorm* watcher of tho skies When a new planet swims into his kon.” Iho thought that that speck, catching tho glint of tho sun far beyond the cioudheights of our ordinary apprehension, is not an eagle breasting the sky, but a feiiow-man in u maemno of mans devising, is staggering u> oar credulity, it is like Keats neiore the K-gin marbles;
“My spirit is too weak; mortality \v o.gus noavily on mo lino unwitting Sheep.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7853, 15 July 1911, Page 11
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162Wonder of Aviation New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7853, 15 July 1911, Page 11
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