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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APRIL DUSK, by LUCY ATKINSON MCILWAINE
First Line: Man with your stride in the farthest seas
Last Line: In april dusk at home.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators
First Line: Man with your stride in the farthest seas
Last Line: In april dusk at home.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators
Man with your stride in the farthest seas,
Girdling the earth on a petrol wing,
Soaring to wrest from the Pleiades
Secrets that mock at your visioning,
Your step will lag on the ultimate shore,
Your engine stall at the rim of Mars
If petals drift to an orchard floor
And cattle stand at the pasture bars.
The years that lie on the ocean track,
That swept your plane into ether's dome
Are phantom years -- and your heart is back
In April dusk at home.
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