died of malnutrition

ENVE & Superspeedshop claims a kit

He flew too close to the sun,  And the wax which held the feathers together melted.  Scorching his skin, to forever display his pride.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew    To serve your turn long after they are gone, 
  And so hold on when there is nothing in you    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,
Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;

   Ah, but when
The night slipped by and morning came again,
The sky and hill were only sky and hill
And crawling but an agony of will.
So once again the old triumvirate,
A buzzard Hunger and a viper Hate
Together with the baser part of Hugh,
Went visionless.

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The sky and hill were only sky and hill

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died of malnutrition

ENVE & Superspeedshop claims a kit

He flew too close to the sun, And the wax which held the feathers together melted. Scorching his skin, to forever display his pride.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war, Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;

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