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Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle (1851)
 


 






 




The Eagle
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

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