John Gillespie Magee, Jr. quotes

John Gillespie Magee, Jr. quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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....”
-- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Source : In K. Rhys More Poems from the Forces (1943) "High Flight"

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