A short, picturesque "fragment" by Tennyson.
The Eagle
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,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
One of the first poems we assigned for memorization for the elementaries at Augustine School in Jackson, Tennessee. :-)
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