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"Golf is a good walk ... spoiled"​
                        --Mark Twain
"Though​ he be clad in silk or scarlet, an ape ..... is still an ape"
                                                      -- Wm. Shakespeare
HIGH FLIGHT

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-sil​vered 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 untresspasse​d sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr.
(19 years old)
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

High Flight was composed by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1922, the son of missionary parents, Reverend and Mrs. John Gillespie Magee; his father was an American and his mother was originally a British citizen.

He came to the U.S. in 1939 and earned a scholarship to Yale, but in September 1940 he enlisted in the RCAF and was graduated as a pilot. He was sent to England for combat duty in July 1941.

In August or September 1941, Pilot Officer Magee composed High Flight and sent a copy to his parents. Several months later, on December 11, 1941 his Spitfire collided with another plane over England and Magee, only 19 years of age, crashed to his death.

His remains are buried in the churchyard cemetery at Scopwick, Lincolnshire​, United Kingdom.