He will Watch the Hawk

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He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye
  Or pitifully;
Nor on those eagles that so feared him, now
  Will strain his brow;
Weapons men use, stone, sling and strong-thewed bow
  He will not know.

This aristocrat, superb of all instinct,
  With death close linked,
Had paced the enormous cloud, almost had won
  War on the sun;
Till now, like Icarus mid-ocean-frowned,
  Hands, wings are found.

© Stephen Spender