[Magdalen] Prayers ANSWERED: missing, beloved dog is found!

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 2/19/16 10:12 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Well, if there was a leap, it was totally unconscious--I don't think I ever heard of John McGee. Thanks for the info.


He didn't have a large body of published work, just the one poem he 
wrote down, which survived him.  It was printed in church publications 
by his father, then curate of St John's Episcopal Church in Washington, 
DC  He died at the age of 19 in 1941 in England in a crash of his 
Spitfire, a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.

High Flight

  "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."



-- 
Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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