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THE EAGLE; A FRAGMENT by ALFRED TENNYSON

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First Line: HE CLASPS THE CRAG WITH CROOKED [OR, HOOKED] HANDS
Last Line: AND LIKE A THUNDERBOLT HE FALLS.
Subject(s): BIRDS; EAGLES;
HE clasps the crag with hooked [or crooked] hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.


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