![]() ![]() It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed." He also wrote of his course ending soon and of his then going on operations, and added, "I think we are very lucky as we shall just be in time for the autumn blitzes(which are certain to come)." The sonnet above was sent to his parents written on the back of a letter which said, "I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day. He flew in a Spitfire squadron and was killed on a routine training mission on December 11, 1941. He won a Scholarship to Yale, but instead joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in late 1940, trained in Canada, and was sent to Britain. He was educated at Rugby school in England and at Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut. Magee was born in Shanghai, China, of missionary parents-an American father and an English mother, and spoke Chinese before English. ![]() Put out my hand, and touched the face of God I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy graceĪnd, while with silent lifting mind I've trod My eager craft through footless halls of air. I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung ![]() You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung Of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthĪnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings The version that most nearly follows the original manuscript is as follows: A well known military aviation poem "High Flight", written by John G. ![]()
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