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 AN ALLUSION TO THE EAGLETS

like an eaglet I first found my love,

For that the virtue I thereof would know,

Upon the nest I set it forth to prove

If it were of that kingly kind or no;

But it no sooner saw my sun appear,

But on her rays with open eyes it stood,

To show that I had hatched it for the air,

And rightly came from that brave mounting brood;

And when the plumes were summed with sweet desire,

To prove the pinions it ascends the skies;

Do what I could, it needsly would aspire

To my soul's sun, those two celestial eyes.

Thus from my breast, where it was bred alone,

It after thee is like an eaglet flown.