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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 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.
-John
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