Regal
- Photograph
- 15 by 10 inches
- unframed
- £20.00
- The phrase swan song refers to Mute Swan and to the legend that it is utterly silent until the last moment of its life, and then sings one achingly beautiful song just before dying;
Socrates' last words before being put to death in 399 BC: "You think I cannot see as far ahead as a swan. You know that when swans feel the approach of death they sing, and they sing sweeter and louder on the last days of their lives because they are going back to that God whom they serve."