I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening...

I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it stirs and changes I see what it is: / Two swans have found the mirror in the lake / Where a V of horizon lets light through / To make them light-source and light-shape in one. / Now they swim and fade through windows of reed / And disrobe the lake of apparition.

John O'Donohue Quote About Dream, Swans, Mirrors: I Have Never Seen White...

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