A literary eagle

Last week's post about örninn, the eagle, prompted some of our readers to mention the similarities between Ari Eggertsson's photograph and Tennyson's poem, The Eagle. To remind you:

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson