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Monday March 15, 2010

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  • peter hansen on High Flight (Airman’s Ecstasy) Rome had running water and sewerage 2000years ago.Here we are in the 21st century, living in the "Smart State'', and our ... more
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High Flight (Airman’s Ecstasy)

Posted by: Greg Cary | 21 August, 2009 - 1:22 PM
spitfire

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, Jr

Blog comments Your Say

  • Rome had running water and
    sewerage 2000years ago.Here
    we are in the 21st century,
    living in the "Smart State'',
    and our government can only
    think about vastly expensive
    dams and desalination plants.
    If they want to have a study
    tour of what worked and in
    some cases still work, a look
    at these marvels of superb
    engerneering might be useful

    peter hansen Sunday 22 November, 2009 - 9:19 AM

  • What happened to the dicussions of a pipe line from the north - How much line could be laid following the railway line - as against the costs of building and maintaining two more desal plants. We are currently living in Bilgh's noddy land

    Brian McKenna Friday 13 November, 2009 - 11:46 AM

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