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Starlight silvers tawny tiercel eyes revealed
Curved claw and falconed talon bound and sealed
Bright creature caught with knavery, not might.
Gryphon, strike and strive to win again the wind.
Fond, triumphant fools, oblivious to shame
To jape and jeer and majesty thus maimed
Cruel clowns to make a mockery of plight —
Gryphon, strike and strive to win again the wind.
Wings that whisper not, but beat with brazen zeal
Against obdurate iron, stounding steel
Revealing form fantastic, framed for flight —
Gryphon, strike and strive to win again the wind.
Mortal metal murdered by a rage restrained
Greet the greyking, grizzled dawn unchained,
And with the light, reave reason, sense and sight.
Gryphon, strike and strive to win again the wind.
Leo and Aquila mixed, power waits, at height:
Gryphon, strike and strive to win again the wind!