The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.

For long years a bird in a cage
Now, flying along with the clouds of
heaven.

Don't just fly, soar.

Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Thou gay-plumed bird, whose never-bridled flight </br> O'er field, o'er forest, is one long delight; </br> Were I a gay-plumed bird, how blest 'twould be </br> Thy songs to sing, to fly, to rest with thee, </br> Thou gay-plumed bird!

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.

Spread your wings. Soar like an eagle. May the wind be behind you. May the sun be in front of you on your face and may you fly.

Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow,
An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,
High in the purer, happier air.

Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.