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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

VI. Animate Nature

The Eagle

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

HE clasps the crag with hookèd 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,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.