THE EAGLE.

Thare iz a grate deal ov poetry in eagles; they kan look at the sun

without winking; they kan split the clouds with their flashing speed;

they kan pierce the blu etherial away up ever so fur; they kan plunge

into midnight's blak space like a falling star; they kan set on a giddy

krag four thousand miles hi, and looking down onto a green pasture kan

tell whether a lamb iz phatt enough tew steal or not.

Jupiter, the Peterfunk, god ov the anshunts, had a grate taste for

eagles, if we kan beleave what the poeks sing.

I hav seen the bald-headed eagle and shot them in all their native

majesty, and look upon them with the same kind ov venerashun that i do

upon all sheep stealers.

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