25 August 2008

Bridge in Kinderdijk (Netherlands)


I saw you toss the kites on high 
And blow the birds about the sky 
And all around I beard you pass, 
Like ladies' skirts across the grass--
O wind, a-blowing all day long 
O wind, that sings so loud a song! 

I saw the different things you did, 
But always you yourself you hid, 
I felt you push, I heard you call, 
I could not see yourself at all
O wind, a-blowing all day long 
O wind, that sings so loud a song!
 
The wind
Robert Louis Stevenson