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  • See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
    And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
    Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
    Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

    Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.33