Another World

A happy memory, and a few words on his favourite pastime:

How glorious, these blazing heights
Above the weather's fickle sway--

With such delight as quite exceeds
The clumsy scratchings of my pen,
In mad pursuit of daring deeds,
I burst above the clouds, and then,
With boyish mischief on my mind,
I dove and spun and banked and whirled;
And there, in smoky letters, signed
My name upon another world.