Great Heights

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I went and slew all the shadows away,

So now was I, reaching the shining sun!

I came down to Earth with the sun in pain,

Scorched flesh, I expected fame and renown!

But when I came proud, then they came hurried

They pitied me and saw a man bleeding

What of my great sun? "It should be buried!

Too strange, too unseemingly a treasury."

The villagers buried the sun in stone

Elders scold me for not obeying them

Once I was great, now the greatest jewel gone

Great deeds treated as foolery, all them,

I am treated as insane and I weep,

Looked at my great muscles, told to feed sheep

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