THE AVIATOR.
O God ! To have the world below our . feet ! , To mount, and glide, and soar, and : looking down j Upon the littl emen that dot the street, And all the tiny tracing of the town ; For once to measure with an infinite span The little things of earth, from heai ven's great height, And thence to view the works and ways' ; of man, . ••■ < And judge their values with a clearer sight! i O Joy ! to race the winds, and hear i them singing, To cleave the clouds, and spring, and i swoop, and rise, And on and on, in the infinite, up-wing-y ing, With throbbing pulse and sun-con-fronted eyes! To soar', alone, above, in the immense Blue freedom of the sky, where time and space Dissolve in joy of motion, and the sense Of power outruns the little earthly race ( ■ '. Of creeping men — 0 God! what joy of fine New being this ! Shall not our race :"• grow fair, With powers like these? Greater, more . i free, divine? From kinship with the all-transcending i air. ; — Lillian Sauter, in English Review. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 6 (Supplement)
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