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Guest
01-Feb-2005 03:33
The poem and photograph do seem to fit well together. To bad he died... he probably could have made a career out of poetry/writing.
Guest
30-Jan-2005 07:40
"High Flight" is a poem written by John Magee (typoed it in my first comment). He was a RCAF officer killed in action during World War II. The poem he had written was found in his foot locker when they were packing up his personal effects.
I saw this picture and the poem fit perfectly.
Guest
30-Jan-2005 05:03
Beautiful poem Dean. Where did you find it?
Guest
29-Jan-2005 21:52
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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even 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.
- Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
- No. 412 squadron, RCAF
- KIA 11 December 1941
