"gatt" wrote:
There it is. No finer point has been put to it.

"Tony" wrote in message
oups.com...
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee has given my reasons to fly better than
I can. I'll copy HIgh Flight for you. Anthony W: North Carolina (PP
SEL INST, with a couple of thousand hours wrapped inside a M20J).

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth


It's a great emotionally stirring poem, no doubt. Which makes it remarkable
that some arguably great parodies of it appear to have been written:

http://www.skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html#high

It's a tough call, but I find the one titled "High Flight, with FAA
Supplement" the most amusing.