Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Eagles, for variations on this theme.
“As the eagle cannot soar upon a single wing, so the ministry is unprofitable and joyless which stints devotion.”
Samuel Rutherford Unwin Bros, Gresham Press, London 1891
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