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THE ACE TO HIS QUEEN by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY

First Line: MY BIPLANE, TAKING
Last Line: AND PAY THY LOVER!
Subject(s): AVIATION & AVIATORS; AIRPLANES; AIR PILOTS;

MY biplane, taking
The faint light breaking
Through pink clouds, foamy
Where dawn comes creeping,
Swings 'round through Heaven,
Times seven-times-seven --
A heaven duller
Of warmth and color
Than that below me
Where thou art sleeping!

A sky-hung warden,
Above thy garden,
In circles swinging
Times out of number,
I await the hour
Of dawn's full flower,
When, sinking nearer
That Heaven so dearer,
My motor's singing
Shall break thy slumber.

My motor's humming
Shall tell my coming,
Ere thou canst even
My form discover;
Oh, then, my lady!
Be up and ready,
And, while Time lingers,
With kiss on fingers,
Lean out from Heaven
And pay thy lover!



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