"The lady traveler said the falcon was the bird of royals, to which my father replied, – birds do not distinguish one …"

"The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather."

"The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white ros…"

"Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect'…"

"Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to v…"

"My falcon now is sharp, and passing empty; And till she stoop, she must not be full-gorg'd, For then she never looks …"

"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge."

"Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apa…"

"There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen."

"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultur…"