Biggin Hill RAF memorial chapel

Visited this small chapel at Biggin Hill RAF station dedicated to all the young men of the Commonwealth
who flew off from there and never returned.  This writing was engraved on one of the windows:

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, joining 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.
Hovering 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 a lark, or even eagle flew and, while with silent mind I've trod the high untresspassed
sanctity of space,
put out my hand and touched the face of God.

John Magee (Royal Canadian Air Force) 1940