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So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart.
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Sumner uses a metaphor of an eagle to illustrate the pain of betrayal and loss of freedom.
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