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      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