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From: agparghi@watnot.UUCP (Amit Parghi)
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Subject: Re: Requiem for the Challengers
Message-ID: <11434@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 16:44:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 16:44:26 1986
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Reply-To: agparghi@watnot.UUCP (Amit Parghi)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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      Dave Platt writes:
>
>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 thousand things
>You have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and sung
>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 untrespassed sanctity of space,
>Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Unless I am mistaken, it was written by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

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   Amit PARGHI
   St Jerome's College
   WATERLOO, Ontario
   N2L 3G3   Canada

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