Swan

Quotes

• “A swan always gives the idea of a court-lady, — stately in her grace, ruffling in her bravery, and conscious of the floating plumes that mark her pretensions. The peacock is a coquette ; it turns in the sunshine, it looks round as if to ask the conscious air of its purple and gold ; but the swan sails on in majestic tranquillity, it sees the fair image of its perfect grace on the waters below, and is content.”
• “Swan, my mother said, sensing my excitement. It pattered the bright water, flapping its great wings, and lifted into the sky.The word alone hardly attested to its magnificence nor conveyed the emotion it produced. The sight of it generated an urge I had no words for, a desire to speak of the swan, to say something of its whiteness, the explosive nature of its movement, and the slow beating of its wings.”
• “Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and IMay hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die.”
• “The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.”
• “Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicati sint, quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.”
• “Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.”

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