The Rush Discovery Story

"A Nice Morning Drive"  by Richard S. Foster
[ Taken from Road & Track -- November 1973, pp.148-150 ]

"Gonna Roll The Bones" by Fritz Leiber
Taken from "Dangerous Visions", edited by Harlan Elison, 1967

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
A poem written in 1952 (a year before the poet's death) which inspired a line in "Red Tide" (from Presto).

"Gerontion" by T.S. Eliot
A poem that was part of the inspiration behind the song "Double Agent" from Counterparts. The phrase "wilderness of mirrors" comes from this poem.

"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This poem was originally written in 1798 (published in 1816), while the poet was in opium-induced hallucination. The poem remains unfinished, as before Coleridge could complete it, someone knocked on his door. By the time he had finished with the intruder, the inspiration had gone. "Kubla Khan" is the basis for the song "Xanadu".

"There Is a Lake Between Sun & Moon" by Pye Dubois
This is the original poem which formed the basis of the song "Between Sun & Moon".

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