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 falls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew –
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

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Rest well...

Awsome !

I should add the verse `High Flight' sometimes referred to as `the pilot's creed' were widely distributed and plaques bearing it were sent to all R.C.A.F. air fields and training stations.

The poem was published in 1943 in a volume called More Poems from the Forces (which was `dedicated to the USSR'). The posting above is a transcription of the original manuscript in the Library of Congress.