Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive 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. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark or even eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
"High Flight," John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Update: Don't worry, everyone; I'm not depressed or anything. The poem is for NASA's Day of Remembrance.
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive 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. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark or even eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
"High Flight," John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Update: Don't worry, everyone; I'm not depressed or anything. The poem is for NASA's Day of Remembrance.
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wildswan:
Well I was before the meds.
devilsreject:
that thing is probably impervious to nuclear fallout, they're be cockroaches crawling all over it during Nuclear Winter. When it makes the list of ways to kill a zombie, you know it's a solid keyboard.