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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 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.
    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.

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a
man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."