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My falcon to my wrist / Returns
From no high air.
I sent her toward the sun that burns / Above the mist;
But she has not been there.
Her talons are not cold; her beak / Is closed upon no wonder;
Her head stinks of its hood, her feathers reek / Of me, that quake at the thunder.
Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;
Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme;
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, / But climb.