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Oh! I have the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on on laughter-silvered wings
Sunward, I've climbed, and joined the tumbling
Of sunsplit clouds, and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of--wheeled and and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through halls of air. . .
Up, up, up the long, delirious burning
I've the wind swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even flew--
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed of space
Put out my hand, and touched the of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was a World War II pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF), enlisting instead of using his scholarship to Yale. John sent the poem to his parents and told them he started the poem while he was thirty thousand feet in the air and finished it when he landed. In December 1941, John died when his Supermarine Spitfire collided with another plane. The original letter he sent his parents with the poem and title in it can be seen at the Library of Congress.
The evening that the Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986 President Ronald Reagan was supposed to give his State of the Union address. Instead he spoke to the American people about the shuttle explosion using parts of "High Flight" in his address. When he was finished, President Reagan told his speechwriter Peggy Noonan that he wasn't happy with the address, however, the public was in awe. President Reagan's January 28, 1986 speech is considered one of the top Presidential speeches.
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