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 THOUGHT AND SPACE BY RAY D. BRADBURY

Space--thy boundaries are
 * Time and time alone.

No earth-born rocket,
 * seedling skyward sown,

Will ever reach your cold,
 * infinite end,

This power is not Man's to
 * build or send.

Great deities laugh down,
 * venting their mirth,

At struggling bipeds on
 * a cloud-wrapped Earth,

Chained solid on a war-swept,
 * waning globe,

For FATE, who witnesses,
 * to pry and probe.

BUT LIST! One weapon have
 * I stronger yet!

Prepare Infinity! And , quick as light,
 * Gods regret!
 * shall pierce the veil,

To reach the lost beginnings
 * Holy Grail.

Across the sullen void on
 * soundless trail,

Where new spawned suns and
 * chilling planets wail,

One shall travel
 * midst the gods' playthings,

Past cindered globes where
 * choking flame still sings.

No wall of force yet have ye
 * firmly wrought,

That chains the supreme
 * strength of purest thought.

Unleashed, without a body's
 * slacking hold,

leaves the ancient
 * Earth behind to mold.

And when the galaxies have
 * heeded DEATH,

And welcomed lastly SPACE'S
 * poisoned breath,

Still shall travel
 * as an arrow flown.

SPACE--thy boundaries are 
 * TIME---AND ALONE!

FAMOUS LAST WORDS:


 * "But, Mr. Smith, how do you explain that gyro-statistic-electromagnetiosonomonator on the radiostuntomotor?"


 * "CLUNK!"

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