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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460175" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a wing and a prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Icarus<br>has had a bad press<br>throughout history<br>as some sort of moral metaphor<br>for a man who challenged<br>Intelligent Design<br>and/or the gods<br>and failed, in a narrow-minded view</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A young man’s ambition<br>and perhaps devotion<br>drew him towards the heavens<br>why not<br>and science had not developed very far<br>so how was he to know<br>except by experiment</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’d like to think that as he dropped<br>out of a cloudless Greek sky<br>out of mythology<br>out of Breughel’s painting<br>out of Auden’s mindfulness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he was caught before the third and last bobbing up<br>by a bevy of compassionate mermaids<br>and returned gently to land<br>to live again perhaps under<br>an assumed name</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while the mermaids sang to each other his story<br>across the seven seas<br>who whispered it to men<br>in the off-shore breeze<br>as a moral story telling how</div><div style="margin:10px 0">heartfelt prayer always reaches heaven<br>there to be taken into account<br>but science is dodgy, make sure<br>you get it right and<br>it will be your servant</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when one day with heaven’s consent<br>you build a better vehicle to ‘conquer’ space<br>though how untrue a phrase<br>perhaps Apollo would be <br>a safer name since Icarus Two<br>somehow doesn’t have that ring about it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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