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"Listen, you who have held sway over the earth all this time. I announce this to you before you begin to disappear.
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No one after you will hold sway as long a time—not even half as long."
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A third wing raised itself up, and it also exercised rulership like the previous ones, and it too disappeared.
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And so it happened to each of the wings in turn, to come to power and then never to be seen again.
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I looked, and indeed the wings that followed on the right side also rose up in time so that they too might rule, but some of those who came to power disappeared immediately,