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

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" The Eagle http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/eagle.htm" (1851) <br class="br">Context: p>He clasps the crag with crooked hands;<br>Close to the sun in lonely lands,<br>Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;<br>He watches from his mountain walls,<br>And like a thunderbolt he falls.</p

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