Tuesday, April 3, 2007

the "add-on"


RICHARD F. BROWN
1931 - 2007






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 untresspassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand and touched the face of God.



This poem, written by John Gillespie Magee in 1941, has always been my husband's favorite.


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It's been a long Winter.

I just need a little rest, so
if you don't find new posts
I'm sure you'll understand.

Thank You all.

PsB