tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257300967494280432.post1297238527870943558..comments2023-10-08T05:28:18.335-07:00Comments on smithsk: Touching the Face of God ...smithskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946340205443725436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257300967494280432.post-89211516615405009172020-08-11T03:16:38.705-07:002020-08-11T03:16:38.705-07:00Thank you for this! God bless.Thank you for this! God bless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257300967494280432.post-40003039403011065302011-01-27T11:20:59.464-08:002011-01-27T11:20:59.464-08:00For reference to the poem posted in the first comm...For reference to the poem posted in the first comment, according to this Canadian source, the poem, "High Flight" is in effect in the public domain. http://www.teigland.de/resources/John+Gillespie+Magee+Jr.+-+High+Flight.txtsmithskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946340205443725436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257300967494280432.post-56173208721229674032011-01-27T10:11:07.318-08:002011-01-27T10:11:07.318-08:00Beautiful poem!
This American gave his life defend...Beautiful poem!<br />This American gave his life defending Great Britian - one which Sir Winston Churchill said - "Never was so much owed by so many to so few."smithskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946340205443725436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257300967494280432.post-82949911725396096932011-01-27T09:57:05.379-08:002011-01-27T09:57:05.379-08:00Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And da...Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth<br />And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;<br />Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth<br />Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things<br />You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung<br />High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there<br />I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung<br />My eager craft through footless halls of air.<br />Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,<br />I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace<br />Where never lark, or even eagle flew -<br />And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod<br />The high untresspassed sanctity of space,<br />Put out my hand and touched the face of God.<br /><br />Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee<br />No 412 squadron, RCAF<br />Killed 11 December 1941Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com