You’re halfway through the week! It’s all downhill from here, so you’ve got it made. To kick off the second half of 2013’s Week #18, sit back and enjoy this spectacular display of night time awesomeness. I wish I could say I’ve seen the Northern Lights in person, but alas, that pleasure is still ahead for me. (Hope you watch this in full screen mode.)
POLAR SPIRITS from Ole C. Salomonsen on Vimeo.
Here’s an excerpt from the best poem ever written about the “rory bory,” and a link following if you’d like to read the entire poem:
THE BALLAD OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
by Robert W. Service
The short-lived sun had a leaden glare and the darkness came too soon,
And stationed there with a solemn stare was the pinched, anaemic moon.
Silence and silvern solitude till it made you dumbly shrink,
And you thought to hear with an outward ear the things you thought to think.
Oh, it was wild and weird and wan, and ever in camp o’ nights
We would watch and watch the silver dance of the mystic Northern Lights.
And soft they danced from the Polar sky and swept in primrose haze;
And swift they pranced with their silver feet, and pierced with a blinding blaze.
They danced a cotillion in the sky; they were rose and silver shod;
It was not good for the eyes of man–’twas a sight for the eyes of God.
It made us mad and strange and sad, and the gold whereof we dreamed
Was all forgot, and our only thought was of the lights that gleamed.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-the-northern-lights/