Eagle at St. Croix

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Some lordly eagle

"With what rapture you behold, hovering over some vast hollow of the hills, or slowly drifting at an immense height over the far sunken Housatonic valley, some lordly eagle, who in unshared exaltation looks down equally upon plain and mountain." -- Chapter 1, Israel Potter (1854-5)

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Diving and soaring

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"And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces."  -- Moby-Dick, The Try-Works.