“Lend ear while things incredible we bring about
And Spacemen dead and deathless yet we sing about
And some were weak and wan, and some were strong enough,
And some got home, but damn it took them long enough!”

—  R. A. Lafferty

Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 1

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American writer 1914–2002

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