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PEGASUS, by                    
First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise
Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares


HIS pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise,
The mythic beast whose limbs inviolate are
Held by no god or man in rein or bar,
Unto the vast mysteriously flies.

The lessening horse's mane in aureole wise
Becomes, far streaming, an immortal star,
Lustrous in the nocturnal gold like far
Orion glittering in the frosty skies.

And as in days when fair souls and aloof
Drank from the springs struck by his sacred hoof
Their dream of flight into sidereal lands,

Poets who for the reverence lost them weep
Still see in fancy 'neath their feeble hands
The white beast in forbidden heavens leap.





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