THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES

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Released October 30, 2022

Lyrics: Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass
Melody and chords: Mark Alan Daves/Robert Virgil Daves
Arrangement: Badlu (Celebrity Music)/Mark Alan Daves
Badlu (Celebrity Music): Guitars, drums, recording, final mix, post-production.
Mark Alan Daves: Vocals, piano, trumpet, bongos, bass guitar, finger-snapping
Recorded at Celebrity Studios, Zhubei, Taiwan 2022

Walt Whitman's poem set to music many years ago in a most accidental way.

THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting,
Their separate diverse flight, she hers, he his, pursuing.

From Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, 1891-1892