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THE AIRMAN - ZaunköniG - 10.08.2014 THE AIRMAN (Flanders, August. 1917) IN the mid-heaven, as the gray eagle soars On tireless pinions, watching with fierce eyes The sunlit valley which beneath him lies, The ocean's weltering waste which breaks and roars Against its hoary cliffs, the stream that pours Its floods adown the steeps, the light that dies Upon the purple peaks, the bird that flies Nestward along the river's reedy shores — So. high above the battle's thunderous din, The far-trenched fields, the shattered ranks that flee From the flushed foe, the flames grown pale and thin O'er burning homes, he hangs expectantly, Till suddenly on the quarry he would win He swoops and strikes for God and Liberty. |