 Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 12by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that qniver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far...impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be who say, in these enlighten'd... | |
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