The Eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks, <br />For the wild hunter and the Bison seeks, <br />In the changed world below; and finds alone <br />Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.<br /><br />John Greenleaf Whittier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/inscription-for-the-relief-by-preston-powers/