Song of the Spaceway
20. SONG OF THE SPACEWAY - A black Ink and grey pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. The drawing appears in, "Galaxy," Oct.1976."
Back in the mid 1970s, editor Jim Baen asked me to do a series of drawings that would appear in each issue of Galaxy magazine under the title, "The Feature Page". I could draw whatever I wanted. When I began to think about what to draw for the forthcoming Feature Page, my mind turned to the works of Robert A. Heinlein for inspiration. I recalled reading his story, "The Green Hills of Earth," a tale about "Rhysling, the blind singer of the space ways," and decided to draw something based on the verse that opens that story. I came up with this scene of a lady aboard a spaceship in deep space, she has been away from home for a long time and is homesick for Earth. She is playing a musical instrument and singing the lines from that verse:
" I pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave me birth;
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool green hills of Earth."
Back in the mid 1970s, editor Jim Baen asked me to do a series of drawings that would appear in each issue of Galaxy magazine under the title, "The Feature Page". I could draw whatever I wanted. When I began to think about what to draw for the forthcoming Feature Page, my mind turned to the works of Robert A. Heinlein for inspiration. I recalled reading his story, "The Green Hills of Earth," a tale about "Rhysling, the blind singer of the space ways," and decided to draw something based on the verse that opens that story. I came up with this scene of a lady aboard a spaceship in deep space, she has been away from home for a long time and is homesick for Earth. She is playing a musical instrument and singing the lines from that verse:
" I pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave me birth;
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool green hills of Earth."
