ROOM ON THE LEFT: a song from Iceland ...

Thursday, November 21, 2013

some of you will know my Viking Princess friend

she is from Iceland

and she now lives in Norway

today she posted this on Facebook

and it's so pretty

I thought you might like it too

there is English translation for those of us who do not speak

Icelandic!!!

and I have discovered that only the Icelanders can speak

Icelandic!!!

thank you Svana for sharing!!!

here she comes...

I am standing by the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength,

and I stand and watch

until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud

just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!

Gone where? Gone from my sight – that is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar

as she was when she left my side

and just as able to bear her load of living freight

to the places of destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says,

‘There she goes! ‘ ,

there are other eyes watching her coming,

and other voices ready to take up the glad shout :

‘Here she comes!’

Henry Van Dyke, 19th century

ROOM ON THE LEFT