The Skyward Look
On a day in the autumn I saw a prairie eagle mortally wounded by a rifle shot. His eye still gleamed like a circle of light. Then he slowly turned his head, and gave one more searching and longing look at the sky. He had often swept those starry spaces with his wonderful wings. The beautiful sky was the home of his heart. It was the eagle’s domain. A thousand times he had exploited there his splendid strength. In those far-away heights he had played with the lightnings and raced with the winds, and now so far away from home, the eagle lay dying, done to the death, because for once he forgot and flew too low . . .
—From Streams in the Desert, by Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 156, 1 May 1965, Page 16
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130The Skyward Look Forest and Bird, Issue 156, 1 May 1965, Page 16
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