High Flight
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
1922 to 1941
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And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, - ______ 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 ______
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped ______ wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ______ eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,