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INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE EAGLE, STOOPING FROM YON SNOW-BLOWN PEAKS
Last Line: THEIR GRAVEN SEMBLANCE IN THE ETERNAL STONE.
Subject(s): BISON; NATIVE AMERICANS; STATUES; INDIANS OF AMERICA; AMERICAN INDIANS; INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA;

THE eagle, stooping from yon snowblown peaks,
For the wild hunter and the bison seeks,
In the changed world below; and finds alone
Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.



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