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HIGH FLIGHT
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings.
Sun-ward 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.
Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and
flung my eager craft through foot-less halls of air.
Up,Up the long delirious burning blue.
I've topped the wind-swept heights
with eager grace Where never lark or even eagle flew
and, while with silent lifting mind,
I've trod the high un-trespassed sanctity of space.
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
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