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Gregory Inman Barras

West Point, 1955

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Bob Russell on May 1, 1999:












HIGH
FLIGHT





John Gillespie Magee,Jr



Oh, I have slipped the surley bonds of earth

And danced the skys 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 soard and swung

High in the sunlit silence, Hov'ring there,

I have 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 untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.



God's speed Greg,





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