But in man was ne'er such daring

As yon Hawk exhibits, pairing

His brave spirit with the war in

The stormy skies!

"Mark him, how his power he uses,

Lays it by, at will resumes!

Mark, ere for his haunt he chooses

Clouds and utter glooms!

There, he wheels in downward mazes;

Sunward now his flight he raises,