11 March 2021

Historical Railway Bridge over the Swider River in Otwock (Poland) painted by Pawel Rupniewski

There is a village,
Świder its sullen name,
a river, called the same
glitters behind the wooden villas;

on August nights, patrolling
underneath the stars,
I see stars falling,
but not on the villas,
...

From the Poem A Trip to Swider
from Konstanty Galczynski