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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (One of my favourite poems)
"High Flight"John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive 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. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or 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.
markbark
(1,560 posts)The sign off poem read just before the National Anthem played followed by a test pattern here in the DC area.
(Yes, I'm old enough to remember when broadcast TV was not 24/7 {grin})
IDemo
(16,926 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,917 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)but Ronald Reagan wrote it