Fantastic Worlds - fall 1954

admonition

(Poem)

addressed to a lady poet of my acquaintance who thought of taking up science fiction, her current lover (not, repeat, not me) being a science fictioneer

by a. bertram chandler

Sing not of love, of stars above
That light the way to bliss,
Of yellow moon that sets too soon
Before the farewall kiss;
And do not hymn past ages dim --
Rebellion, Restoration --
There’s been enough high-colored guff
On the history of the nation.

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