<>The Eagle</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 .</P>
<>The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ;<BR>He watches from his mountain walls ,<BR>And like a thunderbolt he falls .</P>
<> ---Alfred Tennyson,1851</P>