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In reply to the discussion: Amazing photo: Frog photobombs NASA moon launch [View all]petronius
(26,700 posts)9. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed ofwheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand*, and touched the face of God.
-- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
* Do frogs have hands? Or is it paws? Feet? Flippers?
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Froggy is only the latest in a long line of critters disturbed by rocket launches
LongTomH
Sep 2013
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