I know a falcon swift and peerless As e'er was cradled in the pine: No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine.


The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - The Falcon, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1890


I know a falcon swift and peerless As e'er was cradled in the pine: No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine.

I know a falcon swift and peerless As e'er was cradled in the pine: No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine.

I know a falcon swift and peerless As e'er was cradled in the pine: No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine.

I know a falcon swift and peerless As e'er was cradled in the pine: No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine.