So delicate each leaf
So mighty your bough
Branches bend humbly
Yet strength be your vow
Waters in libation
Winds in embrace
Under your majesty
Beneath I in place
Seasons of change
Sun, moon a distant star
Listen I to all the secrets
Whispers near and far.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse, oil painting, 1888, Tate Gallery, London.
"...Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat..."
The Lady of Shalott, 1833, poem, Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.
