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The Eagle & Break, Break, Break

He clasps the crag¹ with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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Guided Reading Question 1
Where does the eagle watch from? How does he fall?
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Break, break, break,
	On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
	The thoughts that arise in me.

O well for the fisherman’s boy,
	That he shouts with his sister at play!
O well for the sailor lad,
	That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
	To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
	And the sound of a voice that is still!

Guided Reading Question 2
What is well for the fisherman’s boy and the sailor lad?
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Break, break, break,
	At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
	Will never come back to me.

Guided Reading Question 3
What will never come back to the speaker?
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