THE GRASSHOPPER AEROPLANES
'Neath arching skies benignly blue Where zigzag-fcnccs skirt the lanes. One August day I lolled agio'* And watched the myriad aeroplanes. I saw them fuel in the grass And preen them e’er began their flight; I heard tho little engines whir, s And then—ah, 'twas a pretty s'.ght! From stalk of timothy they sped To light upon the jirason-weed. Or circled in the drowsy air • Above tho wheat field’s waving meed. And some were green and some wore brown, And some a soft and elfish gray As on tlio air-paths undulant They sailed and sailed the hours away. Singly, paired, in gauzy flocks. They rode upon tho summer breeze ’Mid cheers of finch and chickadee And locust-fiddling in the trees! —Richard W’ghtinan in "Success."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 13
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127THE GRASSHOPPER AEROPLANES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 13
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