Royal Air Force Stations in Lincolnshire

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Creative Commons License Text by Adrian S Pye, August 2019 ; This work is dedicated to the Public Domain.
Images are under a separate Creative Commons Licence.


High Flight


J5082 : Spitfire, Bangor by Rossographer

TF0658 : The grave of  Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, age 19 by Adrian S Pye

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 ever 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.
John Gillespie Magee

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