AEROPLANE, JUNE 6TH.
Reading edition
I WAS watching as you flew Circling in the summer sky; Round about you thoughts I threw, Every bit as swift as you, Every bit as high. Out of cloud a palace springs, Domes and minarets and towers, Bastions, where the trumpet rings And my topmost turret swings High about the showers. You were captain in the skies Nimble as a darting sword— Of the company of spies Who my castle from surprise Vigilantly ward. Wheeling, darting, unaware That you were the warden bold Of my palace towering there, Of its battlements of air And its roofs of gold. All unheeding trumpet calls Down you plunged from out the blue; Warderless the silver wells, And my airy castle falls Swifter far than you.
L. A. G. STRONG (WADHAM)