Poems and a Promise

It has been a long weekend. I planned to get a two posts up. I was going to clarify the "Mer Rape is very common" line from the conversation I posted last week, and I was going to post what is below. Instead I cleaned all weekend and went to my wife's uncles 90th bday party. Overall I had a great time but it didn't leave me anytime to speak to my fellow Mer-enthusiasts. My apologies so for now you get this and I promise tomorrow or Wed, hopefully I can bring out a few more Mer facts.

Here are a few of my favorite verses of poetry dedicated to Mers by some of the world most enlightened authors.

“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.” - William Butler Yeats

Thou rememb'rest
Since once I sat upon a promontory
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.
- William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Oberon at II, i)


Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb I would sing and say,
"Who is it loves me? who loves not me?"
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Mermaid

Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw,
Betwixt the green brink and the running foam,
Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest
To little harps of gold; and while they mused
Whispering to each other half in fear,
Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Sea Fairies

~Will~
Zihfune = A Great Sorrow or Depression

The sea is the world's greatest veil, if we could pull it back the earths greatest treasures would be ours to know.