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

Also from http://raceinthezone.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/high-flight/

Photo (great) by my old friend John (“the world’s third worst photographer”, so he calls himself), but whose photographic talents I definitely do NOT possess)!

web sites: http://www.jetpix.wordpress.com http://www.johnsphotopics.wordpress.com and http://www.capetownmypictures.wordpress.com