The Knickerbocker (Volume 48) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: you. God grant I never may: but I may love another well enough to be happy ? happier than in utter desolation. Farewell; farewell.' To this I made no reply. I had not strength; and it was useless. In another year I heard he was married to one whom I had seen, and knew to be good and beautiful. He was happy: for myself? no matter ! THE EAGLES NEST. I Kxkw an eyrie in a mountain-pass, "Where a bald eagle bad her great nest built, Built it of twigs and soft and mossy grass, And with a progeny of eaglets filled. Here came she hourly to feed her young, Till they were grown quite large enough to fly, Spreading their wings, now long and wide and strong, Hailing her coming with their quick, shrill cry. I found this eyrie when the young were grown Full big and strotg, and watched the parenfrbird, And noticed each time when she settled down, The little eaglets felt their warm nest stirred: She rising thence to take her upward flight, A stick or tuft to her sharp talons clung, The nest was broken, and to my keen sight No nest remained, to hold her now grown young. I marvelled much, nor knew why this was done, But watched the mother: she relumed, and then She strove to teach them how to fly alone, And seek subsistence in the vale and glen: Now pushing one from off the rocky crag, Its wings in fear the eaglet moving, flew, But soon in falling screamed: its young wings flag, And, downward rushing, near the rocks it drew. The mother heard the quick, discordant shriek, And, spreading wings, dashed downward like the light: Now hovering, caught her young with harmless beak, And bore it upward in her airy flight: Released again, the eaglet in amaze, Renewed in strength, each spreading pinion tries, While, lest it fall, the m...