The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86092   Message #1599103
Posted By: Peace
07-Nov-05 - 02:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: I wonder if there is a heaven, and . . .
Subject: RE: BS: I wonder if there is a heaven, and . . .
High Flight (An Airman's Ecstasy) - John Gillespie Magee

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 sun-lit 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 nor 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.


Maybe that?