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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 wind-swept heights with
easy grace
Where never lark, or ever 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. ~
John Gillespie Magee, Jr ~
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Great
Aviation Quotes
"Because
the exploration of space knows no national boundaries,
the loss of the Columbia
is a loss to all humankind."
Kofi
Annan,
Secretary General, The United Nations
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