Dion Weston Associates

Dion Weston
Dion Weston Associates
PO Box 5062 (34 Chisholm Street),
Greenwich, N.S.W. 2065 Australia
Phone: +61 (0) 408 859-267
Fax: +61 (0) 2 9437-1598
Email: dweston@bigpond.com

Interests
Hothouse Interactive
ILEC Sailplane Instruments

ASH-25M at Horsham Week, Feb 2000

Start of 173kph task day.

The Windhover
I caught this morning morning's minion king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, -the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then; a billion
Times told lovlier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
To Christ our Lord

minion- a servile or base favourite of a prince or any patron or any favourite
dauphin- the distinctive title of the eldest son of the King of France, from 1349 to 1830
rung- a stage in a progress or ascent
rein- any means of curbing, controlling, or directing; a check; restraint
wimpling- to ripple, as water
chevalier- an adventurer
sillion- implies a furrow
gall- effrontery