"HIGH FLIGHT"
"Oh, I have slipped the surly -bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughtersilvered wings; Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds—and done a hundred tilings 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 tlung 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, 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." —Poem written by John Gillespie Magec before he was killed in action with the Royal Canadian Air Force in December, and chosen for the Library of Congress exhibit of "Poems of Faith and Freedom," opened in Washington last month.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 92, 17 August 1942, Page 2
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150"HIGH FLIGHT" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 92, 17 August 1942, Page 2
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