Cecil Arthur Lewis Professions : Pilot Born : March 29, 1898 Died : January 27, 1997 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Cecil Arthur Lewis Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's down. Now taxi in. Switch off. It's over - but not quite, for the port engine, just as if it knew, as if reluctant at the last to let me go, kicked, kicked, and kicked again, as overheated engines will, then backfired with an angry snorting: Fool! The best is over ...But I did not hear. Cecil Arthur Lewis down-and home long And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth! Cecil Arthur Lewis farewell pride knowing That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome. Cecil Arthur Lewis cities perfect giving So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores! Cecil Arthur Lewis cheer tree men Similar Authors Albert Scott Crossfield pilot Douglas Bader pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille pilot Hanna Reitsch pilot Chuck Aaron pilot Francis Gary Powers pilot All Authors
