high flight

• kanada kraliyet hava kuvvetleri’nde görev yaparken 11 aralık 1941' de eğitim sırasında daha 19 yaşındayken hayatını kaybeden amerikalı şair - pilot john gillespie magee, jr.’ ın ölmeden birkaç ay önce yazdığı çok ama çok güzel bir şiir;
  
  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 wind-swept 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