“There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon;
But through the clouds I'll never float
Until I have a little Boat,
Shaped like the crescent-moon.”

—  William Wordsworth, Peter Bell

Prologue, stanza 1.
Peter Bell (1798)

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