A Peak in Darien by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Broad gazing on untrodden lands, / See where adventurous Cortez stands; / While in the heavens above his head, / The Eagle seeks its daily bread.

How aptly fact to fact replies: / Heroes and Eagles, hills and skies.

Ye, who contemn the fatted slave, / Look on this emblem and be brave

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