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And over their bright and glancing arms, 



On field, and lake, and sea, 

 With an eye that fires, and a spell that charms, 



I guide them to victory." 



THE AMERICAN EAGLE 



BY CHARLES WEST THOMSON 



Bird of Columbia, well are thou 



An emblem of our native land; 

 With unblanched front and noble brow, 



Among the nations doomed to stand; 

 Proud like her mighty mountain woods; 



Like her own rivers wandering free; 

 And sending forth from hills and floods 



The joyous shout of liberty. 

 Like thee, majestic bird, like thee, 

 She stands in unbought majesty, 

 With spreading wing, untired and strong, 

 That dares a soaring far and long, 

 That mounts aloft, nor looks below, 

 And will not quail though tempests blow. 



The admiration of the earth, 



In grand simplicity she stands; 

 Like thee, the storms beheld her birth, 



And she was nursed by rugged hands; 

 But, past the fierce and furious war, 



Her rising fame new glory brings, 

 For kings and nobles come from far 



To seek the shelter of her wings. 



