The Icarian Journey
The gentle Jebediah Morningside,
Almost alone among mankind,
Retained well beyond the days of his youth,
A restless and curious mind.
A naturalist and a scientist,
He studied all the world around.
Both the living creatures of land and sea,
And the dead buried in the ground.
As the years passed there came into his mind,
A rather peculiar yen:
To know the nature of mortality;
For all men died; What happened then?
By use of physics he built a device,
That used heat and cold, sound and light,
And vibration to create a passage,
Between life and death, day and night.
For forty days, and also forty nights,
He did not pass through this dread gate.
'Twas lack of knowledge and animal fear,
That wisely made him hesitate.
But, alas, his mind would not be denied,
And so he gathered his resolve,
To set out upon his dreadful journey,
In hopes of mysteries to solve.
His family and friends he left with regret;
His worldly wealth he merely spurned;
And he set out in search of knowledge, but,
Jebediah never returned.
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