High Flight
(Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee, No. 412 Squadron RCAF, KIA 12/11/1941)
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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
In respectful memory of:
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, Roger Chaffee: Apollo 1, 1/27/1967
Vladimir Komarov: Soyuz 1, 4/23/1967
Major Michael J. Adams, USAF: X-15 Flight #191, 11/15/1967
Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsayev: Soyuz 11/Salyut 1, 6/30/1971
Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Ron McNair, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis: Challenger, 1/28/1986
Rick Husband, William McCool, Dave Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon: Columbia, 2/1/2003
Requiem aeternam donum est, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
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In saecula saeculorum. Amen.
I would like to echo Mr. Jodell's sentiments exactly. I can't. Speak English!
Respectfully and with My Head in the Clouds,
J
It's just a Latin addendum to the post which means "forever and ever, amen."
I was not as lost as I pretended to be, Mr. Jodell. I sounded out "Amen." It was the rest that stumped me, and understandably so, since the solution, unintuitive as it sounds was forever and forever, which is not expected as the first word was not also the second word.
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