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• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wing
  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....
• Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter silvered wing
  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....
• John Gillespie Magee (1922-1941) High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wing
  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....
• Between men and women there is no friendship possible.
  There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship....
• ...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God. -- John Gillespie Magee, Jr., High Fligh
• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
  Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise....
• The bird let loose in Eastern skies, Returning fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam
  But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way....