Greeting the Supersonics

Faster than sound today,

faster than light tomorrow,

we’ll turn sound into the Tortoise

and light into the Hare.

 

Two venerable creatures

from the ancient parable,

a noble team, since ages past

competing fair and square.

 

You ran so many times

across this lowly earth;

now try another course,

across the lofty blue.

 

The track’s all yours. We won’t

get in your way: by then

we will have set off chasing

ourselves rather than you.