Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, <br />And on the sun's noon-glory gaze: <br />With eye like his thy lids expand, <br />And fringe their disk with golden rays; <br />Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, <br />Light is thine element, thy dwelling air, <br />Thy prospect heaven. <br /> <br />So would mine eagle-soul descry, <br />Beyond the path where planets run, <br />The light of immortality, <br />The splendour of creation's sun; <br />Though sprung from earth, and hast'ning to the tomb <br />In hope a flower of paradise to bloom, <br />I took to heaven.<br /><br />James Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sunflower-3/
