Lost Lagoon

 

 It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon,
And we two dreaming the dusk away,
Beneath the drift of a twilight grey,
Beneath the drowse of an ending day,
And the curve of a golden moon.

It is dark in the Lost Lagoon,
And gone are the depths of haunting blue,
The grouping gulls, and the old canoe,
The singing firs, and the dusk and--you,
And gone is the golden moon.

O! lure of the Lost Lagoon,--
I dream to-night that my paddle blurs
The purple shade where the seaweed stirs,
I hear the call of the singing firs
In the hush of the golden moon.

 

 Emily Pauline Johnson

 

One must see for me is Lost Lagoon an artificial

pond near the entrance to Stanley Park. It is a

good place to see ducks and of course the

famous Mute Swans. I once heard a park

ground keeper interviewed on radio, who said when

he was told the swans were killing Canadian Geese

he replied yes isn't it great, not apparently

a popular answer, however they were peaceful while

I was there and there were no nesting geese there.

It is a great place for herons.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Lagoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,

And now my heart is sore.

All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,

The first time on this shore,

The bell-beat of their wings above my head,

Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,

They paddle in the cold

Companionable streams or climb the air;

Their hearts have not grown old;

Passion or conquest, wander where they will,

Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,

Mysterious, beautiful;

Among what rushes will they build,

By what lake's edge or pool

Delight men's eyes when I awake some day

To find they have flown away?

 

from The Wild Swans of Coole

        W.B. Yeats