[Rhodes22-list] High Flight Poem

[TN Rhodey]

Slim,

My FIL was an Air Force pilot for 20 plus years. When he passed away Jenny 
read the High Flight Poem at his service.  Her Dad always had a framed copy 
on his office. She actually made it all the way thorugh.

Wally


>From: Slim <salm at mn.rr.com>
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] High Flight Poem
>Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:35:49 -0600
>
>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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