High Flight
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
1922 to 1941
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And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, - 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
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
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