Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Sunday Morning Swans



Rockford Michigan


The Wild Swans at Coole


The trees are in their autumn beauty, 
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water 
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones 
Are nine-and-fifty swans.



The nineteenth autumn has come upon me 
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings 
Upon their clamorous wings.



I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, 
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight, 
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head, 
Trod with a lighter tread.



Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air; 
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will, 
Attend upon them still.



But now they drift on the still water, 
Mysterious, beautiful; 
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day 
To find they have flown away?


Olympus OM-D5II
@ 2015 Photo Pro - Jeffrey P. Hopp

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