Posted by Surly COMF on March 19, 1999 at 19:46:53 {MW/gR4wSzjOiA}:
In Reply to: 1914? Not a Big Deal posted by 5GJW on March 19, 1999 at 13:29:45:
Clearly, the single most important event of the century was the release of the first album, "Are You Experienced?", by Jimi Hendrix.
Surly COMF
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.
Jon Gillespie Magee, Jr.