Verse for Today
Before you took the heavens at a bound, Young airman, with the star winds in your hair, You had precursors on the floods of air: Those deeps no plummet made of man can sound Yielded a roadstead all the birds had found Out of creation’s morning. Free and fair Their sails were spread ere any mariner With viking triumph of the sky. was crowned. Spring after spring they tack into the gale, ■ . The fleets l of robins, bluebirds, flying north. Who marked the, course that these armadas sail? Who bids their comings and their • goings forth? There where your wings break on resisting tides The frail craft of the swallow dreaming rides. From “ The Chartered Skies.” by C. L. O’Donnell, 1884 —. [Longmans, Green.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27389, 15 May 1950, Page 1
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126Verse for Today Otago Daily Times, Issue 27389, 15 May 1950, Page 1
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