Gracefully, a swan goes sailing,
Stately, with her head held high,
Gliding like on liquid glass,
Lakeside forests passing by.
Glancing back, she wonders why
Watchers wait on shoreline grass,
Following her floating trail. She
Slowly spreads her wings to fly.
This poem's inspired by the classic cello piece "The Swan," which is part of Camille Saint-Saens' suite The Carnival of the Animals. Last year, I wrote an arrangement of the piece for four cellos (with one playing the melody and the other three providing an accompaniment that's a bit different from the normal piano accompaniment that Saint-Saens wrote). Once I'm back in the states, I'm hoping to start making and sharing some recordings of this and other musical stuff I've been working on.
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