The Eagle That is Forgotten

Eagle That is Forgotten, The,
poem in five-stress anapestic meter, by Vachel Lindsay, published in General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems (1913). This elegy on the memory of J.P. Altgeld, liberal governor of Illinois, celebrates him as a “brave-hearted …wise man” who “kindled the flame” and served “the mocked and the scorned and the wounded, the lame and the poor,” concluding that “To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.”