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To: SkyPilot; JLAGRAYFOX; NFHale; Grampa Dave; HarleyLady27; flat; unkus; Lumper20; ...

This poem hangs above my desk and I included it in my husband’s eulogy:

“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. Hovering 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 wind-swept 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.”


76 posted on 10/23/2017 7:03:42 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

The first time I heard that poem read was by Ronald Reagan, for the Challenger Astronauts.

It always brings a tear to my eyes.


77 posted on 10/23/2017 7:05:46 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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