“Icarus, Icarus, though the end is piteous,
Yet forever, yea, forever we shall see thee rising thus,
See the first supernal glory, not the ruin hideous.”

—  Stephen Vincent Benét

Source: Young Adventure (1918), Winged Man

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poet, short story writer, novelist 1898–1943

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