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VOL I. Ano-ust 20th., 1899. No.4. 



-*- The Eagle, -v 



He clasps the crag with hook'ed hands; 

 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 

 Ringed with the azure world, he stands. 



The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 

 He watches from his mountain walls, 

 And hke a thunderbolt he falls. 



Tennyson. 



