[Rhodes22-list] Brad's flying

[Robert Skinner]

Ed, your best post ever!
/Robert

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.