Prends comme moi racine, ou donne-moi des ailes
Comme a toi!’
Victor Hugo.
Eagle! that coursing by on mighty pinion,
Cleaving the cloud with firm and dauntless breast,
Hast deigned to stoop thee from thy proud dominion,
To circle in thy flight my lowly nest.
I mark thee now, all heavenward ascending,
Thy far form cresting the cerulean,
Above earth’s shadows on thy pathway wending,