This Eagle from the West;

Adventurous, ravening for prey, unawed

By perils of the quest.

Beneath new clouds, above fresh fields he flies,

Foraging fleet and far,

With clutching talons, and with hungering eyes,

Scornful of bound or bar.

Winged things, he deems, may safely oversweep

Landmark and mountain-post.

The Forest-king may fancy he can keep