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    I've Blessed My Wings a Thousand Times - Gill Robb Wilson

    I've blessed my wings a thousand times
    for where they've carried me--
    high up the ladders of the wind--
    far out across the prairies of the sky
    to lands my fathers never knew
    and shores my kindred never trod--
    threading the corridors of templed cloud
    out and away beyond accustomed sights
    and sounds and creeds and breeds.

    I've blessed my wings a thousand times
    because of doors they held ajar
    to aspirations of a seeking youth--
    the vistas and horizons that receded endlessly
    though I pursued them furiously--
    the ceaseless challenge to orbit beyond
    the perimeters of the antiquated
    and weary traditions and dogmas
    which anchor men to the bloody past.

    I've blessed my wings because they are
    the physical evidence of the moral concept
    that to mankind nothing is impossible--
    that creation is his heritage and that
    the language of God is articulate
    and intelligible in the laws of the universe.
    Time is not the measure of rising and setting suns
    but the processing of experience from which
    the truth emerges for all who run to read.

    For all of this and more beside
    which points to the stars and beyond,
    I've blessed my wings a thousand times.

    But there is a nearer ecstasy!
    The wings that bear one home--the song
    of the engine when the homebound leagues
    fold the homesick heart in their embrace--
    the joy of letting down to the place
    the heart has never left--the thrill
    of returning to the one spot on earth
    beloved above all others--home!

    And, if it be "Home for Christmas,"
    how thrice blessed are my wings.


    GILL ROBB WILSON
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    ...and a merry Christmas to all.

    Ron "Happy Hogmanay!" Wanttaja
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    Forgot to give credit to my bud, Rich Shankland, who found this poem in his late father's aviation scrapbook and transcribed it.

    Ron Wanttaja

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    Thanks Ron !

    Bob

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