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On the course of that chariot and those horses. A boy could not hope to control them. You are my son, but mortal. No mortal Could hope to manage those reins. Not even the gods are allowed to touch them. ... 'Our first stretch is almost vertical. Fresh as they are, first thing, It is all the horses can do to get up it. Then on to mid-heaven. Terrifying To look down through nothing At earth and sea, so tiny. My heart nearly struggles out ..
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The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.Over the cage floor the horizons come.
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The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.
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Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
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But who is stronger than death?Me, evidently.
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