highflight
Since Oct 19, 2004
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Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards Ive climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god.