High Flight
 
 
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.
Hovering there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along,
and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.