A tribute to E-J
This poem, entitled Remembrance, was composed in tribute to 'E-J' by Lt Cdr David Morgan DSC, a fellow Sea Harrier pilot. 'Mog' was a good friend who later on became brilliantly successful in his own right during the Conflict
Somewhere a skylark sings
With joy, above the field and coombe
Where once he walked, soft-footed,
'Cross the deep spring-scented leys,
Where chuckling brook, cold crystal
Clear, tumbles and trills 'twixt
Banks of peppermint and thyme.
Where once his voice laughed out
In praise of field and sky,
And body swam the heady main
Of Nature's sweetest scents
Upon the passing of the rain,
And languid willows trail
Their fronded fingers though the stream.
Forever stilled now lies this voice,
Hard by some forbidding shore,
In grave unmarked, 'neath seas
That roam from Horn to Africa.
Yet lives his spirit still in Spring,
And song of birds, and scent of
Cleansing rain, in this green land ...
Contributing to the Garden of Remembrance
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