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Updated: June 15, 2025
Never had I seen her fairer than at this minute and she had likewise waxed of a buxom comeliness, and how sweet were her red cheeks, and swan-white skin, and ebony-black hair, which flowed out from beneath her little hat in long plaits twined with white and sapphire-blue velvet ribbon. Never did a maid seem more desirable to a man.
And this is what he sung: "Lady fair, Swan-white, Lift thine eyes, Banish night By the might Of thine eyes. Snowy arms, Oars of snow, Oar her hither, Plashing low. Soft and slow, Oar her hither. Stream behind her O'er the lake, Radiant whiteness! In her wake Following, following for her sake. Radiant whiteness!
Ah, me! those swan-white, sky-blue, rose-pink maidens who in every town and on every plantation from Memphis to Charleston, from Richmond to New Orleans, despatched their billets by the forlornly precarious post only when they could not send them by the "urbanity" of such or such a one!
Before the altars the swan-white mother-souls glisten and flutter. The estufas are without human occupants, their entrances alone are watched by old men or women outside to prevent the work of invocation and gratitude performed inside by symbolic advocates from being desecrated by rude or thoughtless intruders.
"Have the well carefully cleaned out," said he, "kill the frog that obstructs the spring, and the wonderful water will flow again." The King did as he was advised, and rejoiced to see the water return. He gave Plavacek twelve swan-white horses, and as much gold and silver as they could carry.
'An' where the heart rests the feet are swift to follow. Not that I'm sayin' I'd like to live here, Larry, said he. "'I know where my heart is now, I told him. 'It rests on a girl with golden eyes and the hair and swan-white breast of Eilidh the Fair but me feet don't seem to get me to her, I said." The brogue thickened. "An' the little man in green nodded his head an' whirled his shillalah.
The yacht Laura, sleek and swan-white, her ensign and colors folding and unfolding, lifting and sinking, as the shore breeze stirred them, was making ready for sea; and many of the villagers had come down to the water front to see her off.
"Have the well carefully cleaned out," said he, "kill the frog that obstructs the spring, and the wonderful water will flow again." The king did as he was advised, and rejoiced to see the water return. He gave Plavacek twelve swan-white horses, and as much gold and silver as they could carry.
Never had I seen her fairer than at this minute and she had likewise waxed of a buxom comeliness, and how sweet were her red cheeks, and swan-white skin, and ebony-black hair, which flowed out from beneath her little hat in long plaits twined with white and sapphire-blue velvet ribbon. Never did a maid seem more desirable to a man.
And this is what he sung: "Lady fair, Swan-white, Lift thine eyes, Banish night By the might Of thine eyes. "Snowy arms, Oars of snow, Oar her hither, Plashing low. Soft and slow, Oar her hither. "Stream behind her O'er the lake, Radiant whiteness! In her wake Following, following, for her sake, Radiant whiteness!
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