Thy destroyer is the eagle grey.

Not a swallow ’tis, that hovering clings,

Hovering clings to her warm little nest;

To the murdered son the mother clings.

And her tears fall like the rushing stream,

And his sister’s like the flowing rill;

Like the dew her tears fall of his love:

When the sun shines, it dries up the dew.

—From Talvi’s Historical View.

THE FAREWELL