{"id":149,"date":"2022-09-08T22:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","slug":"eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"EAGLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the musical JANE AND ELLEN AND MARY<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEagle\u201d is sung by the young Jane Addams, showing how the idealism and ambition that led to her becoming America\u2019s foremost social work pioneer were deeply grounded in the Northern experience of the Civil War, during which she was born. Her father was an Illinois state legislator and sometime associate of Abraham Lincoln, who referred to him as \u201cdouble-d\u201d Addams. –J. Linn Allen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THERE WAS THIS EAGLE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS OLD LADY EAGLE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO MADE AS HER HOME THE WISCONSIN STATE CAPITOL<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHE\u2019D BEEN ATTACHED TO A CIVIL WAR REGIMENT<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOW SAT QUITE TAMELY<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIGHT BY THE DOOR  <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AT THE SIDE OF THE SOLDIER WHO\u2019D KEPT HER ALIVE THROUGH THE WAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I WENT WITH MY FATHER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TO VISIT THE CAPITOL<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHERE THE OLD SOLDIER TOLD US THAT THE EAGLE MEANT <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FREEDOM AND RIGHTS THAT THE SOLDIERS HAD FOUGHT FOR   <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND THAT\u2019S WHY THEY STAYED<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHOWING ALL WHO ARRIVED  <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THAT THE WARRIOR EAGLE AND IDEALS IT STOOD FOR SURVIVED.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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BUT A FEW WEEKS LATER WE READ IN THE PAPERS  <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THAT THE SOLDIER HAD DIED AND THE EAGLE HAD FLOWN <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND NOBODY ACTUALLY KNEW WHERE THE EAGLE HAD GONE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AFTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019D STARE AT THE SKY<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SURE IF I LOOKED HARD ENOUGH I WOULD SEE HER FLY   <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAY UP THERE HIGH WITH HER WINGS SPREAD SO WIDE  <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHE WAS STILL STRONG AND SOARING<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIKE ALL THE IDEALS  <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THAT KEPT THE MEN PROUD IN THAT TERRIBLE WAR<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I NEVER DID SEE HER <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT I KNEW SHE WAS UP THERE <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND I KNEW WHAT I\u2019D DO<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019D FOLLOW THAT EAGLE FOREVER WHEREVER SHE FLEW.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREVER SHE FLEW.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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