First Line: EAGLE! WHY SOAREST THOU ABOVE THAT TOMB? Last Line: ASCENDING HEAVEN; ATHENS DOTH INHERIT / HIS CORPSE BELOW Subject(s): BIRDS;DEATH;EAGLES;PLATO (428-348 B.C.);SOUL; "DEAD, THE;"
Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-ypaven home Floatest thou? I am the image of swift Plato's spirit, Ascending heaven--Athens doth inherit His corpse below.