University of Toledo - Blockhouse Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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TO THE MEMORY OF Every Uiiiversigf of Toledo filumizus giving bis lyfe during this war. 'k 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 cloudseand done a hundred things You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swunv, High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, l've chased the shouting wind along and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air, Up, up the long delirious burning blue l've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never lark, or even eagle, flew, And while with silent, lifting mind l've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. D JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE, jf. Pilot Ojfirer in the llqwl C.ii1.1fliiii1 Air Forre This poem was zvritten iii Keptriiibcr, 19-ll, wlieii tlve poet was iziilrteen. He was kzllvil in action ozwr Briliiin December Il, 19-ll. High Flight has bum mwiea' the ojfirial poem of the British flying forces all ozier the world, ami bus been plated III ,ill the pilol-lriiiniazg centers of the Brilisb Empire.