Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


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First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor
Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads!
Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish


THE captive Bird was gone; -- to cliff or moor
Perchance had flown, delivered by the storm;
Or he had pined, and sunk to feed the worm:
Him found we not: but, climbing, a tall tower,
There saw, impaved with rude fidelity
Of art mosaic, in a roofless floor,
An Eagle with stretched wings, but beamless eye --
An Eagle that could neither wail nor soar.
Effigy of the Vanished -- (shall I dare
To call thee so?) or symbol of fierce deeds
And of the towering courage which past times
Rejoiced in -- take, whate'er thou be, a share,
Not undeserved, of the memorial rhymes
That animate my way where'er it leads!





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