[nickcarraway]

[Jamestown1630]

Awww. And people say swans are ‘mean’.

[Sacajaweau]

Our Town had some swans in a nearby pond. We met with the owner. He said kids have to go to the bus stops armed with sticks...Swans are tasty.

[SaveFerris]

That’s so sad 😭

[virgil]

Someone please find a mate for that poor bereaved bird.

[AnAmericanMother]

Orlando Gibbons, "The Silver Swanne"

The silver Swanne, who, living, had no Note,
When Death approach’t unlock’t her silent throat.
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
“Farewell all joyes! O Death come close mine eyes!
More Geese than Swannes now live, more Fooles than wise.”