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

[shutchinsonca]

Sorry Sibyl -- doing email from my new phone!! I hope this goes to you and the list.
blessings Susan


Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> Date: 2016-02-19  2:39 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: magdalen at herberthouse.org Subject: Re: [Magdalen] John Magee was Prayers ANSWERED: missing, beloved dog is found! 
I don't know why Susan sent to me instead of to List, but I just got 
this in my inbox with the List subject line and reply quote from Susan 
Hutchinson:

Momentary intervention from a quiet one (recently anyway) ... the poem 
High Flight is featured on the modern freestanding altar at Trinity 
College Chapel in Toronto -- as Marion will attest. The altar was 
commissioned as a memorial to members of the college who died in WWII.

blessings
Susan
always praying, but less able to intervene in the conversation these 
days ...




On 2/19/16 1:54 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> Oh, as an Army Brat of Japan yourself (though he was more of a
> Missionary Brat, a PK) you might appreciate that he was born in Shanghai
> in 1922, and got his early education at the American School in Nanking,
> going to England with his mother in 1931.  It's possible that he was
> inspired to get into the military as soon as he was old enough from
> reading/hearing about the 1937-38 Rape of Nanking (a town he'd have
> remembered)?
>
> On 2/19/16 1:07 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
>> 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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