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hayley Started conversation Jan 2, 2009
Hi,
I am looking for a poem I read on someones site written by a pilot I think about their expierience of flying, I seem to have a vague memory that you had it on your site but after hunting around I cannot find it, do you happen to know which one I mean by some stroke of random luck, sure hope you do regards Hayafi
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Phred Firecloud Posted Jan 2, 2009
High Flight
by 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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor 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.
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