The Hawk

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Call down the hawk from the air;
     Let him be hooded or caged
     Till the yellow eye has grown mild,
     For larder and spit are bare,
     The old cook enraged,
     The scullion gone wild.‘
     ‘I will not be clapped in a hood,
     Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
     Now I have learnt to be proud
     Hovering over the wood
     In the broken mist
     Or tumbling cloud.‘
     ‘What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
     Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
     Last evening? that I, who had sat
     Dumbfounded before a knave,
     Should give to my friend
     A pretence of wit.‘