Sky Mandala Series

Oh! I have slipped the

surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on

laughter-silvered wings;

Sky Mandala II

- and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of -
 wheeled and soared and swung
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.


 

Sky Mandala IV

Sky Mandala I 

Sunward I've climbed, and joined    the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds 

Sky Mandala III 

Up, up the long, delirious,         burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept 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.

John Gillespie Magee