Fare Thee Well, Voyager!
So long ago we
prayed, “God speed,”
as you left the
launching tower.
And you were quite
fast, indeed,
o’er thirty-six
thousand miles per hour.
We said, “Goodbye”
and not, “adieu,”
for we knew you
would not return.
We could not know
from your milieu
the heavenly facts
that we would learn.
You now confront
our System’s rim...
and soon may know
what lies beyond,
but, Gates of Hell...or
Cherubim...
we yearn to learn what
you respond.
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