Where never a Lark or Eagle flew

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My Daughter had her band concert last week I think it was. Her Junior High did a combined concert with the Senior High. What I found interesting was that the evening was filled with selects from symphonies that were War or Military related.

One such selection was "Where never a Lark or Eagle flew"
A young girl read the poem and then they played the peace. It was very moving when they did it. I have loved that poem ever since "The Gipper" used it. With the current event's it means even more now.

If has been posted recently forgive me.


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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 untrespassed sanctitiy of space

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


By John Gillespie Magee Jr



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