When she was a young girl, Mrs. Eddy, later the author of Science and Health, wrote a poem entitled "Upward." The first and last stanzas read as follows (Poems, pp. 18, 19):
I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing,
His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling—
Careening in liberty higher and higher—
Like genius unfolding a quenchless desire.
My course, like the eagle's, oh, still be it high,
Celestial the breezes that waft o'er its sky!
God's eye is upon me—I am not alone
When onward and upward and heavenward borne.
