Favorite Poem
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
Just another great poem that I would love to share with you.
This is what life is about!
Semper Fi
God Speed
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One Response to “Favorite Poem”
Cowboy Blob on 27 Jan 2005 at Thu 27 January 2005 21:54:14 #
Truly the greatest poem I’ve ever read, even better heard. Back in the 60s or 70s (I was a kid), I saw a video made (by the USAF, I think) of that poem voicing over film of a fighter airing it out in the Wild Blue. I wish I could find a copy of it. I think I’ll try…Google, here I come!