Keen as an eagle whose flight towards the dim empyrean <br />Fearless of toil or fatigue ever royally wends! <br />Vast in the cloud-coloured robes of the balm-breathing Orient <br />Lo! the grand Epic advances, unfolding the humanest truth.<br /><br />George Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poetry-of-southey/
