I've seen one flying saucer. Only when
I've seen one flying saucer. Only when
It flew across our sight in 1910
We little thought about the little men.
But let's suppose the little men were there
To cozy such a disk through foreign air:
Connecticut was dark, but didn't scare.
I wonder what they thought of us, and why
They chose the lesser part of Halley's sky,
And went away and let the years go by
Without return? Or did they not get back
To Mars or Venus through the cosmic flak?
At least they vanished, every spaceman Jack.
It flew across our sight in 1910
We little thought about the little men.
But let's suppose the little men were there
To cozy such a disk through foreign air:
Connecticut was dark, but didn't scare.
I wonder what they thought of us, and why
They chose the lesser part of Halley's sky,
And went away and let the years go by
Without return? Or did they not get back
To Mars or Venus through the cosmic flak?
At least they vanished, every spaceman Jack.
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Hi,
Hi,
This isn't the full text of the poem. The other verses are:
Now they are with us in the books, in air,
In argument, in hope, in fear, in spare
Reports from men aloft who saw them there.
The day one saucer cracks, the greatest egg
Since dinosaur and dodo shook a leg
Will give new meaning to the prefix meg.
Some say the saucers with their little race
Of little men from Littlesphere in space
Have sensed our international disgrace.
And when the thing blows over, up, or what,
They'll gladly land and give us all they've got
So Earth shall cease to be a trouble spot.
One fact as old as Chaucer, Saucer Men:
You may be little as a bantam hen,
But Earth has specialized in little men.
- Go Fly a Saucer, by David McCord
Imagination's Other Place: Poems of Science and Mathematics
Compiled by Helen Plotz
Little, Brown and Company, 1955
See also:
Someone Else is on Our Moon, by George H. Leonard, 1976.
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