From The Movie Secretariat

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Do you give the horse his strength?

Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Do you make him quiver like locusts,

His majestic snorting spreading terror?

He paws with force, he run with vigor,

Charging into battle.

He scoff at fear; he cannot be frightened;

He does not recoil from the sword.

A quiver full of arrows whizzes by him,

And the flashing spear and the javelin.

Trembling with excitement he digs up the land;

He does not turn aside at the blast of the trumpet.

As the trumpet sounds, he says, "Aha!"

From afar he smells the battle,

The roaring and shouting of the officers.

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