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No You Be A Lone Eagle

I find it very hard to be

About people who go around being air-minded.

I just can't see any

In soaring up up up into the

When the chances are still a fresh cool orchid to a paper

That you'll unsoar down down down onto your (to you) invaluable    cranium.

I know the constant

About how safer up in God's trafficless heaven than in an automobile    or a

But…My God, have you ever taken a good look at a strut?

Then that one about how you're in Boston before you can say antidis-

So that preferring to take five hours by rail is a pernicious example of    antiquarianism.

At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing    in the South

And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of    aviation.

Then, despite the assurance that aeroplanes are terribly comfortable I    notice that when you are railroading or

You don't have to take a paper bag along just in case of a funny feeling.

It seems to me that no kind of

Brings such speedy retribution as ignoring the law of gravity.

Therefore nobody could possibly indict me for

When I swear that I wish the Wright brothers had gone in for silver    fox farming or tree surgery.

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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. Wit…

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