High Flight - June 6th Reflection
Published by Campbell M Gold in Reflection · Thursday 06 Jun 2024
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Tags: June, 6th, Reflection, High, Flight, Contemplative, Journey, Humanity, Vastness, of, Space, Blog, Article, Page
I've... Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Today is 06 Jun 2024, the 80th anniversary of D-Day. My mood is reflective, and my thoughts drift with "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee Jr...
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…
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 windswept 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.
(John Gillespie Magee Jr - written c.18 August 1941)
I’ve topped the windswept 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.
(John Gillespie Magee Jr - written c.18 August 1941)
On 11 Dec 1941, John Gillespie Magee Jr was killed in a mid-air collision over Ruskington, England.
Poignant and heady stuff indeed!
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