Nets to Catch the Wind

<h3> <SPAN name="eagle"></SPAN> THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE<br/> </h3> <p class="poem"> Avoid the reeking herd,<br/> Shun the polluted flock,<br/> Live like that stoic bird,<br/> The eagle of the rock.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> The huddled warmth of crowds<br/> Begets and fosters hate;<br/> He keeps, above the clouds,<br/> His cliff inviolate.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> When flocks are folded warm,<br/> And herds to shelter run,<br/> He sails above the storm,<br/> He stares into the sun.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> If in the eagle's track<br/> Your sinews cannot leap,<br/> Avoid the lathered pack,<br/> Turn from the steaming sheep.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> If you would keep your soul<br/> From spotted sight or sound,<br/> Live like the velvet mole;<br/> Go burrow underground.<br/></p> <p class="poem"> And there hold intercourse<br/> With roots of trees and stones,<br/> With rivers at their source,<br/> And disembodied bones.<br/></p> <p><br/><br/><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />