Home the eagle hies,

Swift, to his eyrie, his broad pinions stretched,

Bearing him onwards, seeming motionless

The while with rapid wing he cleaves the air,

As ship the waters: now the grousecock crows

On heathered knoll his vesper lullaby

To his dear mate.

And from the silver lake,

Cradled in mountain-setting, echoing comes,

With rippling music on the air, the plash