High FlightOh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward Ive climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthof sun-split clouds, and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hovring there,Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flungMy eager craft through footless halls of air....Up, up the long, delirious, burning blueIve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.Where never lark, or even eagle flew And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trodThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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- Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression