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High Flight

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High Flight

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, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
Image size
4395x2930px 8.28 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 60D
Shutter Speed
1/320 second
Aperture
F/10.0
Focal Length
131 mm
ISO Speed
160
Date Taken
Jun 14, 2014, 7:29:23 PM
Sensor Size
19mm
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Okamikiba18's avatar
So beautiful poem, I've never heard it before, thank you!