If you have ever heard this put to music - y7ou would never forget it. Often going by the name "High Flight" it was used as the sign off by one of the TV stations, when I served in San Antonio Texas, (WOAI I think) as it's end of the day closing. > > From: [email protected] > Date: 2003/02/02 Sun PM 02:54:15 CST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-L] Fw: The Space Shuttle > > Thank you Carolyn. Our prayers and thoughts to families at this tragic > time. > > And then this for your comfort too: > > Susan (in San Diego) > > High Flight > by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. > > > 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 windswept heights with easy grace > > Where never lark, or even 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. > > > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > <http://cgi.rootsweb.con/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi> > >