Flight (The Higher We Fly)

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
 And danced the sky on laughter silvered wings
 Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
 Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
 I've wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence
 Hovering there, I've chased the shouting winds aloft
 And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air
 The higher we fly, the farther we go
 The closer we are to each other
 The darker the night, the brighter the star
 In peace go my sisters and brothers
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 Up, up, the long delirious burning blue
 I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
 Where never lark nor even eagle flew
 And while with silent lifting mind I trod
 The high untrespassed sanctity of space
 Put out my hand and touched the face of God
 The higher we fly, the farther we go
 The closer we are to each other
 The darker the night, the brighter the star
 In peace go my sisters and brothers