A Better Thing + 

I took it for a bird of prey that soared + 

High over ocean, battled mount, and plain; + 

’Twas but a bird-moth, which with limp horns gored + 

The invisibly obstructing window-pane! + 

Better than eagle, with far-towering nerve + 

But downward bent, greedy, marauding eye, + 

Guest of the flowers, thou art: unhurt they serve + 

Thee, little angel of a lower sky! + 