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our colt: Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, sprang from the blood of Medusa the Gorgon and flew to heaven. The Latin poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) related a legend in which Pegasus lived on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses; by striking it with his hoof he created the fountain of Hippocrene, after which the Muses made him their favourite Olympus: Greece’s highest mountain; the home of the gods road metal: here there may be an echo of T. Sturge Moore’s Art and Life (1910), 76:
Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll III (1876), 9, also used the image. Pegasus, prancing in the land of fable, is ‘… no useful, safely virtuous/Cart-horse of your citizen.’
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Jeffares, A.N. (1996). From ‘The Green Helmet and other Poems’ 1910. In: Jeffares, A.N. (eds) Yeats’s Poems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26155-0_9
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