

Clare Balfe
Inspired by W.B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole.

"Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away"
"Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;"
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
"Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon then still."