Flight

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 wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark nor ever 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.

For some of us, this is the closest we will ever get to heaven.

 

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• A nice poem！ -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 13:03:24

• Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue... -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 13:17:28