Only

Only when flight shall soar

not for its own sake only

up into heavens lonely silence,

and be no more

merely the lightly profiling,

proudly successful tool,

playmate of winds,

beguiling time there, careless and cool:

only when some pure Whither

outweighs boyish insistence

on the achieved machine

with who, has journed thither be,

in that fading distance

all that his flight has been.