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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VOYAGE A L'INFINI, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poet's Biography
First Line: The swan existing / is like a song with an accompaniment
Last Line: Without imagination.
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Swans; Fancy
First Line: The swan existing / is like a song with an accompaniment
Last Line: Without imagination.
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Swans; Fancy
The swan existing
Is like a song with an accompaniment
Imaginary.
Across the grassy lake,
Across the lake to the shadow of the willows,
It is accompanied by an image,
-- as by Debussy's
"Reflets dans l'eau".
The swan that is
Reflects
Upon the solitary water -- breast to breast
With the duplicity:
"The other one!"
And breast to breast it is confused.
O visionary wedding! O stateliness of the procession!
It is accompanied by the image of itself
Alone.
At night
The lake is a wide silence,
Without imagination.
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