<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Swan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This laboring of ours with all that remains undone,<br>as if still bound to it,<br>is like the lumbering gait of the swan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then our dying—releasing ourselves<br>from the very ground on which we stood—<br>is like the way he hesitantly lowers himself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">into the water. It gently receives him,<br>and, gladly yielding, flows back beneath him,<br>as wave follows wave,<br>while he, now wholly serene and sure,<br>with regal composure,<br>allows himself to glide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rainer+Maria+Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480393" data-title="The Swan de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="This laboring of ours with all that remains undone, as if still bound to it, is like the lumbering gait of the swan. And then our dying—releasing ourselves from the very ground on which we stood— is like the way he hesitantly lowers himself ..."></div> </div> </div>

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