[Rhodes22-list] High Flight Poem

TN Rhodey tnrhodey at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 12 08:13:28 EST 2006


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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