DIY History | Transcribe | Hevelin Fanzines | Sparx, Special Edition, September 1947

Transcribe
Translate

Sparx, Special Edition, September 1947

Page 3

SPARX                                    3
CCCCC   OOOOO   NN TTTTT EEEEE SSSSS TTTTT COONNNTEST
COONNNTEEESSSSST
COONNNTEST
CCCCCOOOOONNTEEEEESSSSST

OUR POETIC AUTHORS
by
Redd Boggs

Shakespeare did it; Sir Walter Scott did it; fantasy authors do it. Some of the best known prose writing of many od original poetry. Ten such selections are quoted below. How many can you identify?
Match the verse fragment in Part One with the correct author from Part Two. For each correct answer, you get five points. Another Five points added if you can name the story which contains the poem in question. 
Send your entry to the Editor. The Best asnswer received by the first of October will win the prize. Said prize to be paper bound copy of Sleep No More(Military Edition). Coslet and Boggs are not eligible to enter as they know the answers. HMS

PART ONE

(1) "Out of dead darkness and into clear light, 
Marking a pathway on high, 
See how they soar on a happier flight,
The birds that were lost in the sky..."

(2) "-- And the mighty swords of flame
Carving out hot destiny
From the worlds enfettered all by clouds.

To sing again with newborn joy 
That minkind was not decadent,
That furious sons from Earths's unrest--"

(3) "Have you seen Dahut ride by, 
Swift as cloudy shadows fly
O'er the moon in stormy sky
on her stallion black as night?..."

(4) "He looked on His work and found it pleasing, meet for a race 
that was yet  to be. 
He thought of man -- Man came into being -- checked his thought
and searched for the key..."

Saving...

SPARX 3 CCCCC OOOOO NN TTTTT EEEEE SSSSS TTTTT COONNNTEST COONNNTEEESSSSST COONNNTEST CCCCCOOOOONNTEEEEESSSSST OUR POETIC AUTHORS by Redd Boggs Shakespeare did it; Sir Walter Scott did it; fantasy authors do it. Some of the best known prose writing of many od original poetry. Ten such selections are quoted below. How many can you identify? Match the verse fragment in Part One with the correct author from Part Two. For each correct answer, you get five points. Another Five points added if you can name the story which contains the poem in question. Send your entry to the Editor. The Best asnswer received by the first of October will win the prize. Said prize to be paper bound copy of Sleep No More(Military Edition). Coslet and Boggs are not eligible to enter as they know the answers. HMS PART ONE (1) "Out of dead darkness and into clear light, Marking a pathway on high, See how they soar on a happier flight, The birds that were lost in the sky..." (2) "-- And the mighty swords of flame Carving out hot destiny From the worlds enfettered all by clouds. To sing again with newborn joy That minkind was not decadent, That furious sons from Earths's unrest--" (3) "Have you seen Dahut ride by, Swift as cloudy shadows fly O'er the moon in stormy sky on her stallion black as night?..." (4) "He looked on His work and found it pleasing, meet for a race that was yet to be. He thought of man -- Man came into being -- checked his thought and searched for the key..."