With wine and being lost, withless and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far-- I rode Godnear, he sang, it wasour last ride overthe hurdled humans. They cowered whenthey heard usoverhead, theywrote, theylied our neighinginto one of theirimage-ridden languages.

Paul Celan
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In the poem "Snow," by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a man is riding his horse in a snowy landscape. He has been up all night and is exhausted. His horse, God, is singing and telling him that he will be with him soon. The poem ends on a note of loss, as the man rides away from his friend, taking God with him. It is the last ride they ever take together.

Source: Glottal Stop

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