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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS To the Aviators Of Leaside and Armour Heights ______

All summer long, your crowding planes
 * Shadowed the fields where droned the bee,

Or drowned the roar of rushing trains,
 * With engines purring stentorously.

______ Banked white against a mottled sky,
 * Or lifted to the noonday blaze;

Singly, or like wild geese on high,
 * All day ye met our marvelling gaze.

______ Airy as tinted dragon-flies,
 * One with the light and drifting wind;

So did your whirring shapes arise,
 * And leave the grovelling Earth behind.

______ Across deep lakes of molten gold
 * Where sunset's colours flushed and paled;—

Past purple peaks where angels fold
 * Their wings, your venturous pilots sailed!

______ And cried to us:—"Look up! Look up!
 * Ye blinded moles that haunt the shade—

Gaze on the Heavens' jewelled cup,
 * And praise the wonders God hath made!"

______ Cleavers of space, ye fear no foe,
 * The huge cloud-dragons ye out-race:

Or float serene o’er Earth below,
 * Like falcons poised in pride of place

______ Dismays of timid souls ye shame—
 * Your souls of fire no perils shun;

Lo! ye, like moths that dare the flame, James B. Dollard 35
 * Would beard the Angel in the sun!