Name: The Wild Swans At Coole - Single
Duration: P00H03M18S
Description: This is the first Whorl (a WB Yeats poem turned into a song) from what I'll be calling Whorls, my WB Yeats project. We'll see how it takes shape and there's more information and you can let me know what you think of it over at endareilly.com. Thanks.

The Wild Swans At Coole - Single

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This is the first Whorl (a WB Yeats poem turned into a song) from what I'll be calling Whorls, my WB Yeats project. We'll see how it takes shape and there's more information and you can let me know what you think of it over at endareilly.com. Thanks.

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'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?[2]

More info on the poem over at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Swans_at_Coole_(poem)

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released October 20, 2015
Enda Reilly

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Enda Reilly Plymouth, Michigan

Folk Singer, Songwriter and guitarist.

Original songs in Irish and English, WB Yeats' poetry and collaborations and sharing Irish culture in the USA through song.

"FIRMLY ROOTED IN THE PAST WITH AN EYE AND EAR FOR THE FUTURE. ....THE REAL DEAL.”
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