In a message dated 12/30/99 10:37:09 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Hi Guys,
I'm trying to find a copy of the Glider Pilots Poem....>>
I think this is the one you are looking for, although its not exactly the
glider pilots poem. It was written by a British RAF pilot in WWII, a few
days before he was killed. His plane colllided with another in a cloud, just
fyi....
Kristopher
High Flight: (John Gillespie (sp?))
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 delirous burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept 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.
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