Life member Aviator has passed away. (Page 2 of 7)
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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, delirious burning blue i’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace where never lark, or ever 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. (RCAF, PO J. G. Magee, 1941) |
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Damn, didn’t know he was sick. I always wonder how many members here quietly pass on and nobody knows. |
Here’s an example from a butterfly, an example that it can be happy on a hard rock. An example that it can lie on this unsweetened stone, friendlessly and all alone. Now let my bed. I do not care.
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