To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power + 

I have not so much emulated the birds that musically sing, + 

I have abandon’d myself to flights, broad circles. + 

The hawk, the seagull, have far more possess’d me than the canary or mocking-bird. + 

I have not felt to warble and trill, however sweetly, + 

I have felt to soar in freedom and in the fullness of power, joy, volition. + 