With pensive grace, the melancholy Swan <br />Mourns o'er the tomb of luckless Phaethon; <br />On grassy banks the weeping poplars wave, <br />And guard with tender card the wat'ry grave. <br />Would that I might, should I too proudly claim <br />An Heav'nly parent, or a God-like fame; <br />When flown too high, and dash'd to depths below, <br />Receive such tribute as a Cygnus' woe! <br />The faithful bird, that dumbly floats along, <br />Sighs all the deeper for his want of song.<br /><br />Howard Phillips Lovecraft<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-receiving-a-picture-of-swans/
