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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

peter & his ladies.

of course, he may wander.

of course, he may speak to strange women in straw hats.

(and he huffs and he puffs)

of course, he may like women with their own transport.

of course, he may give his address to women in mad-hatter hats.

BUT, of course he is loyal to his first woman,

Lady Guinness.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

the wild swans at Lough Gill (c. 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?

w.b.yeats