. Bards and the birds; . t footing of some ridgeIncredible, three times beyond our ken,And to his keen and upward-straining eyesRound it midway the circling eagles sail,As daws that round some thin and distant spireOn English hill, scarce seen thro lucent air,Are motes in the evening sun. SYDNEY DOBELL. From BALDER Like a sailing eagle oldWhich with unwavering wings outspread and wideMakes calm horizons in the slumbrous airOf cloudless noon and fills the silent heaven / 304 BARDS AND THE BIRDS With the slow circulation of a courseMore placid than repose, this shining stillAnd universal day rev
. Bards and the birds; . t footing of some ridgeIncredible, three times beyond our ken,And to his keen and upward-straining eyesRound it midway the circling eagles sail,As daws that round some thin and distant spireOn English hill, scarce seen thro lucent air,Are motes in the evening sun. SYDNEY DOBELL. From BALDER Like a sailing eagle oldWhich with unwavering wings outspread and wideMakes calm horizons in the slumbrous airOf cloudless noon and fills the silent heaven / 304 BARDS AND THE BIRDS With the slow circulation of a courseMore placid than repose, this shining stillAnd universal day revolves sereneAround me, hasting not and uncompelled. SYDNEY DOBELL. / / From THE LADY OF THE LAKE Such glance the mountain eagle threw,As, from the cliffs of Benvenue,She spread her dark sails on the wind,And, high in middle heaven, her broad shadow on the the warblers of the brake. SCOTT. From THE DEATH OF MOSES Heaven led the people as the eagles parent careHangs oer the lofty There niiglit men the royall ;le find,That with his sharpe looke perseth the Sunne. Ckaucer. PIETRO OF ABANO 305 And flutters fondly oer her young,And spreads her guardian wings, And leads them from the eyry forth,And bids them face the sun. SOUTHEY. From LOVES LABOUR LOST ACT IV. SCENE III. A lovers eyes will gaze an eagle blind. SHAKESPEARE. From PIETRO OF ABANO . . Shell chipped, the eaglet callow Needs a parents pinion-push to quit the eyries edge :But once fairly launched forth, denizen of aether,While each effort sunward bids the blood more freely through each limb pulse,Sure the parent feels, as gay they soar are all pains repaid when love redeems its pledge! BROWNING. u 306 BARDS AND THE BIRDS From TITUS ANDRONICUS ACT IV. SCENE IV. Tamora. . The eagle suffers little birds to sing,And is not careful what they mean thereby ;Knowing that with the shadow of his wingHe can at pleasure stint their melody. SHAKESPEARE. Frnm THE VOICES The m
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