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I, pinionless and faint and weak, Dropped upon Vindhya's woody peak.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Yet lower we fell and for comfort our pinionless spirits had now The leaning of bosom to bosom, the lifting of lip unto brow.

From The Divine Vision and Other Poems by A.E.