The Eagle | Text of the Poem

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:
He watches from his mountain walls,     5
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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