High Flight by: Nicole Kitty 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 the sun-split clouds I've wheeled and soared and swung, High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along Flinging my eager craft through the footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never kat, or even eagle flew. And now the high untrespassing sanctity of space a frontier which I wish to face.