AENGUS & CAER
He dreamt a swan upon the air,
Sweet chandelier of Heaven’s loft,
Into the crystal twilit blue
She purest white and feathery soft.
Though dark be long and day be short
In light-limned love he sought afar;
The clarion voice she left behind
In ripples touched the deepest star.
His hope he met one dusky eve
Near waters where she’d formed her bed.
Her eyes aflame with tortured light,
The beauty spoke, and this she said:
“Oh wanderer you cannot know
Your lovelorn journey is in vain,
For true as your intentions be
A curse was once upon me lain.
Eternally a bird I be;
No mortal ‘gainst it can prevail.
Abandon now your lost pursuit,
Relinquish this futile travail.”
But he, bright God, for so he was,
Recalled the fated reverie
That once had been his longing’s cause—
Resolved to knit their destinies.
As she of snowy plume took flight
A glittering veil consumed the one
Who stood upon the dewy bank.
Then burst a beacon, bright as sun.
From it arose an argent being
Resplendent in the dying day,
Who tore into the vault above,
Eclipsed the moon along its way.
No glance gave he the globe below;
Ambition’s end the gods divine.
Propelled by nothing less than love
Seraphic wings fiercely entwined.
Transcending the celestial spheres
The two-now-one enraptured all
Who for three days and for three nights
Were graced with their supernal call.
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