The heights by great men reached and kept

Were not attained by sudden flight,

But they while their companions slept

Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Ladder of Saint Augustine.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 602.

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,

Leaving no tract behind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Timon of Athens. Act i. Sc. 1.

Once, in the flight of ages past,

There lived a man.

James Montgomery (1771-1854): The Common Lot.

Above the vulgar flight of common souls.

Arthur Murphy (1727-1805): Zenobia. Act v.

The never-ending flight

Of future days.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 221.

Beyond this vale of tears

There is a life above,

Unmeasured by the flight of years;

And all that life is love.

James Montgomery (1771-1854): The Issues of Life and Death.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,

I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight

The selfsame way, with more advised watch,

To find the other forth; and by adventuring both,

I oft found both.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.