EAGLE QUOTES

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John Denver
 THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK 
Words and Music by John Denver and Mike Taylor

I am the eagle, I live in high country
In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky
I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers
But time is still turning they soon will be dry
And all those who see me and all who believe in me
Share in the freedom I feel when I fly

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops
Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars
And reach for the heavens and hope for the future
And all that we "can" be, not what we are

Will Carleton

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But you never were made, as I,
On the wings of the winds to fly!
The eagle said.

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

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Solitary by the sun,
The bird that has been empires
Knows his time has well-nigh run

James C. Percival

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Bird of the broad and sweeping wing!
The skies, thy dwellings are

Isaac McLellan

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O'erlooking from his eyrie grand
The wide expanse of forest land

John Keats

Eagles may seem to sleep wing-wide upon the air 

Alexander Wilson

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High o'er the watery uproar, silent seen,
Sailing sedate in majesty serene,
Now midst the pillared spray sublimely lost,
And now, emerging, down the rapids tossed,
Glides the Bald Eagle, gazing, calm and slow

E. B. White

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, along with spray.
Chemists and farmers flourish at their peril:
The bird of freedom, thanks to them, is sterile.