My love, he had an eagle's heart
That always kept us two apart
But he longed to wander and to roam
And with me he wouldn't stay at home
He traveled east and he traveled west
But he'd always come back to his nest
But his restless heart could find no rest
For he had an eagle's heart in his breast
At times he'd sit alone with me
And talk of lands he longed to see
With a faraway look in his deep blue eyes,
As far from me as the eagle flies.
And then, my love lay still and cold
So young to die, cried those who were old
But I whispered through my tears and pain,
The eagle's heart has broke its chain.
And as I knelt beside his bed,
I heard the beat of wings overhead.
And I saw an eagle soaring high
My love, my love, I noticed he
A -flying far away from me
But my love for him holds no more strains
The eagle's heart at last has wings
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