[Rhodes22-list] High Flight Poem

[Slim]

Do you remember when TV used to go off the air at night?  I remember that
poem being recited while the footage showed a military jet doing maneuvers
across a sunny sky at the end of every day's broadcast.  When I was about
ten years old I could recite the poem from memory word for word.

Slim

> Tootle wrote:
>> ...
>> Addendum:
>> High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
> 
>> 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 untrespassed sanctity of space
>> Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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