Years ago before cable or sat.,or dish tv,in the old days when e were just channels 2,4,7,9,20 & 50.?

Question:

When tv was shutting down for the night,and just before the snow screen,there was a poem recieted while a military plane was flying through the clouds and all I can remember is the very last line.It went "I reached out and touched the face of God"Anybody know what this poem or verse was from,or how I can get a copy? Thanks!!!!

Answer:
High Flight
by Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jr.

Oh! I have slipped the surely 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 sunlight 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.

Years ago before cable or sat.,or dish tv,in the old days when e were just channels 2,4,7,9,20 & 50.?

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