“It was his speed!” on Manny Pacquiao’s victory, rival David Diaz’s first words seconds after Manny Pacquiao’s historic win

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Manny Pacquiao blazes to history, wins fourth world title

 

“I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail’d out to sea;

I sail’d through the storm, I was refresh’d by the storm;

I watch’d with joy the threatening maws of the waves;

I mark’d the white combs where they career’d so high, curling over;

I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds;

Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)

Heard the continuous thunder, as it bellow’d after the lightning;

Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning, as sudden and fast amid the din they

    chased

            each

            other across the sky;

—These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and

    masterful;

All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me;

Yet there with my soul I fed—I fed content, supercilious.”

 

–          Walt Whitman.  Rise, O Days