Vintage The Mountain Stream Oil Painting by Donalee Forbes

THE MOUNTAIN STREAM 
BY JOHN CEIRIOG HUGHES

Mountain stream, clear and limpid, 

wandering down towards the valley, 

whispering songs among the rushes — 

oh, that I were as the stream! 

Mountain heather all in flower

longing fills me, at the sight, 

to stay upon the hills in the wind and the heather. 

Small birds of the high mountain 

that soar up in the healthy wind, 

flitting from one peak to the other

oh, that I were as the bird! 

Son of the mountain am I, 

far from home making my song; 

but my heart is in the mountain, 

with the heather and small birds.

For Merle's Vintage Challenge on Instagram, today's prompt was 'water' and I am happy to share with you this poem by John Ceiriog Hughes (1833-1887) as well as this vintage 1958 oil painting by Donalee Forbes of water rushing down from the mountains and through the forest.

If you like this Welsh poem, you might enjoy Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson's book, A Celtic Missellany, which you can find on Amazon by clicking right here. It contains poems and prose from the 18th to the 19th century from the Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx.

You will find the original Donalee Forbes oil painting shown above as well as other framed and unframed original oil paintings in my eBay store by clicking right here.

See you 

at the art store!

Brenda