Poetry
This was written after seeing "Space Cowboys", but seems apropos.
Sonnet XII
Age does not wither truth, nor time decay
The dreams that live deep rooted in the heart;
The stars that beckon children to outstay
Their parent's bedtimes set us yet apart,
And we would fly out past that narrow scope:
Like Grissom, Glenn and Armstrong we would go.
'Tis not our present age that deadens hope
But timid vision, creeping meek and low.
Make wings of wax, of steel and sand and gold;
Sinews make of fire, bright limbs to reach high
And catch the stars, to stretch out hands and hold
The wonder of what lies behind the sky.
Now let us dream by day, leap from this sod,
And walk beyond the path those heroes trod.
Jennifer Tifft
26 September 2000
Inspired by the Clint Eastwood film 'Space Cowboys.'
Dream by day is a reference to the TELawrence
quote: "But the dreamers by day are dangerous men,
for they see their dreams with open eyes, to make
them possible." "Age does not wither" is from
Shakespeare.
Sonnet XII
Age does not wither truth, nor time decay
The dreams that live deep rooted in the heart;
The stars that beckon children to outstay
Their parent's bedtimes set us yet apart,
And we would fly out past that narrow scope:
Like Grissom, Glenn and Armstrong we would go.
'Tis not our present age that deadens hope
But timid vision, creeping meek and low.
Make wings of wax, of steel and sand and gold;
Sinews make of fire, bright limbs to reach high
And catch the stars, to stretch out hands and hold
The wonder of what lies behind the sky.
Now let us dream by day, leap from this sod,
And walk beyond the path those heroes trod.
Jennifer Tifft
26 September 2000
Inspired by the Clint Eastwood film 'Space Cowboys.'
Dream by day is a reference to the TELawrence
quote: "But the dreamers by day are dangerous men,
for they see their dreams with open eyes, to make
them possible." "Age does not wither" is from
Shakespeare.