Like the stamen inside a flower <br />The steeple stands in lovely blue <br />And the day unfolds around its needle; <br /> <br />The flock of swallows that circles the steeple <br />Flies there each day through the same blue air <br />That carries their cries from me to you; <br /> <br />We know how high the sun is now <br />As long as the roof of the steeple glows, <br />The roof that's covered with sheets of tin; <br /> <br />Up there in the wind, where the wind is not <br />Turning the vane of the weathercock, <br />The weathercock silently crows in the wind.<br /><br />Friedrich Holderlin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-in-lovely-blue/
