Friday, June 6, 2008

To Sail Beyond The Sunset

One of my favorite poems is Tennyson's "Ulysses".  My favorite lines in the poem are these...

                  … Come, my friends,
     'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
     Push off, and sitting well in order smite
     The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
     To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
     Of all the western stars, until I die.
     It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
     It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
     And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. (56–64)

Tonight, as I sat on the balcony and lingered over dinner and a cold glass of iced tea, I looked into the western sky and saw this emerging against the deepening blue sky.  I just thought I would share it with you. 

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