Freedom impasto bw

Humans have long envied birds and dreamt of having the freedom of flight. These gulls reminded me of the famous poem by a pilot in WW... more

by Steve Harrington

Title

Freedom impasto bw

Artist

Steve Harrington

Medium

Photograph - Photography/digital Art

Description

Humans have long envied birds and dreamt of having the freedom of flight. These gulls reminded me of the famous poem by a pilot in WW II.


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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

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April 4th, 2013