Cloud Wings the Eagle. 107 



the wise old prophet meant ; though he wrote long ago, 

 in a distant land, and another than Cloud Wings had 

 taught her little ones, all unconscious of the kindly 

 eyes that watched out of a thicket : " As the eagle 

 stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, 

 spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth 

 them on her wings, — so the Lord." 



