"The Swan" by Rainer Maria Rilke (read by Joanna Macy) by On Being Studios published on 2012-10-30T19:43:28Z Joanna Macy reads the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke during her interview with Krista Tippett. Comment by Chuck Waggoner This laboring of ours with all that remains undone as if still bound to it, is like the lumbering gait of the swan. And then, our dying, releasing ourselves from the very ground on which we stood is like the way he hesitantly lowers himself into the water. It gently receives him and gladly yielding flows back beneath him, as wave follows wave. While he, now wholly serene and sure, with regal composure, allows himself to glide. 2012-11-10T17:13:03Z Comment by Chuck Waggoner This laboring of ours with all that remains undone . . . 2012-11-05T17:22:17Z
