You dominate the vast spaces
and yours are the great summits
girded with solitude.
I have seen you fly haughtily
and lose yourself in paths of azure
which I have never known.
And yet I have thought
that tomorrow
to eat you will be compelled
to descend again to the earth
and scrape in the dunghills
even as the chickens do.
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