High Flight
Iconic WW II poem written by John Gillespie Magee, Jr, an American aviator flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He joined the RCAF before the US entered the war. He was killed in a flying accident in 1941 at age 19.
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Posted 12 February 2015 - 04:47 PM
flight late
I didn't know that, TM - thanks again for your interesting comments! 
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Posted 12 February 2015 - 04:49 PM
Flight commander
" Put out my hand, and touched the face of God"
Beautiful last phrase!
" Put out my hand, and touched the face of God"
Beautiful last phrase!
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Posted 12 February 2015 - 05:45 PM
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
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