High flight
by John Gillespie Magee
Oh, I have slipped the 1)surly 2)bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the 3)tumbling 4)mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of; 5)wheeled and 6)soared and swung
High in the sun-lit silence. 7)Hovering there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through 8)footless halls of air;
Up, up the long, 9)delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never 10)lark nor even eagle flew;
And while, with silent lifting mind I've 11)trod
The high 12)untrespassed 13)sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. CE
02, soar high
Oh, I escaped from the shackles of the gloomy earth
Dancing in the sky with my wings and silver bell laughter;
Facing the sun, I climbed high and circled< /p>
Between the happy clouds shining with sunshine - I have done countless things
Things you have never dreamed of; hovering and turning high
In the translucent silence. Soaring there
I chase the howling wind,
Eager to cross the hall in the sky;
Fly high, fly high in the boundless, ecstatic, In the burning blue sky
I step onto the peak that the wind can reach so calmly and gracefully,
The skylark has never been here, and the eagle has never flown here;
< p>And the quietly rising emotions led me intothe unreachable holiness of heaven and earth
Stretching out my hand, I touched the face of God.
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