From “High Flight”

Lt. John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922 - 1941). 

 

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the skies...

Sunward I've climbed...

And joined the tumbling mirth of sunsplit clouds...

High in the sunlit silence...

Untresspased sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.