In memoriam Don Moore - condolence book

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Re: In memoriam Don Moore - condolence book

Postby IVY MIKE » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:55 am

a man who did not let his vast knowing of aviation turn into abrasive ego and bashing of others that were less accomplished in the field. if only one thing about the man could be incorporated into myself and others, this would be the one.thanks for all the help , the desk monkeys always knew you were a great thing in this world.
I got a hammer, we can fix that.

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Re: In memoriam Don Moore - condolence book

Postby ocelot » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:21 am

I'm new posting here, but I've been lurking on and off for years... so I'd like to add that he was one of the people whose postings drew me back the next time.

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Re: In memoriam Don Moore - condolence book

Postby Sickbag » Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:31 pm

Remote and ineffectual Don
That dared attack my Chesterton,
With that poor weapon, half-impelled,
Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held,
Unworthy for a tilt with men—
Your quavering and corroded pen;
Don poor at Bed and worse at Table,
Don pinched, Don starved, Don miserable;
Don stuttering, Don with roving eyes,
Don nervous, Don of crudities;
Don clerical, Don ordinary,
Don self-absorbed and solitary;
Don here-and-there, Don epileptic;
Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;
Don middle-class, Don sycophantic,
Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic;
Don hypocritical, Don bad,
Don furtive, Don three-quarters mad;
Don (since a man must make an end),
Don that shall never be my friend.

* * *

Don different from those regal Dons!
With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
Who shout and bang and roar and bawl
The Absolute across the hall,
Or sail in amply billowing gown
Enormous through the Sacred Town,
Bearing from College to their homes
Deep cargoes of gigantic tomes;
Dons admirable! Dons of Might!
Uprising on my inward sight
Compact of ancient tales, and port
And sleep—and learning of a sort.
Dons English, worthy of the land;
Dons rooted; Dons that understand.
Good Dons perpetual that remain
A landmark, walling in the plain—
The horizon of my memories—
Like large and comfortable trees.

* * *

Don very much apart from these,
Thou scapegoat Don, thou Don devoted,
Don to thine own damnation quoted,
Perplexed to find thy trivial name
Reared in my verse to lasting shame.
Don dreadful, rasping Don and wearing,
Repulsive Don—Don past all bearing.
Don of the cold and doubtful breath,
Don despicable, Don of death;
Don nasty, skimpy, silent, level;
Don evil; Don that serves the devil.
Don ugly—that makes fifty lines.
There is a Canon which confines
A Rhymed Octosyllabic Curse
If written in Iambic Verse
To fifty lines. I never cut;
I far prefer to end it—but
Believe me I shall soon return.
My fires are banked, but still they burn
To write some more about the Don
That dared attack my Chesterton.
2022: The year of the Squid Singularity

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Re: In memoriam Don Moore - condolence book

Postby Ancient Mariner » Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:37 pm

Lines to a Don
By Hilaire Belloc


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