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I have slipped the surly bonds of earth Windwalker
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High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poetry Foundation
Magee's posthumous fame rests mainly on his sonnet High Flight, which he began writing on 18 August 1941 (a few months before his death) while stationed at No. 53 OTU at RAF Llandow in Wales. The poem was inspired by high-altitude training sessions with his squadron. Magee enclosed the poem in a letter to his parents, dated 3 September 1941. His father, then curate of Saint John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., reprinted it in church publications. The poe… WebI 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 – … WebOh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the sky on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things. I’ve wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there I’ve chased the shouting winds aloft breadwinner\u0027s xz