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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 fung
       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.
          !(here never lark, or even eagle  few  -
       And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
        The high untrespassed  sancdry ofspace,  -
      Put out my hand,  and touched  the face ofGod"

                          John  Gillespie  Magee  Jr.
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