Can a spider fly?
Now I wonder why.
If not. How do they get so very high?
And swing their webs, from tree to tree,
So high, that the nature eye can't see,
--Yet, doubt do we.
Can a spider fly?
It makes me sigh!
That miraculous web, up in the sky.
While heavenly laden with the dew
It's plainly visible to me and you,
--But is it true?
Can a spider fly?
If you would but try,
To explain to us the reason why
They sail about, in the morning breeze,
On a gauzy web, with perfect ease.
--And it was no dream.
Can a spider fly?
Well, away up high,
Floating along, between earth and sky
In a marvelous boat, of silver and lace
A large spider sat, with ease and grace.
--Sure going some place.
Can a spider fly?
Perhaps I'll never know why,
Or understand, though I try and try.
What severed his moorings? Perhaps he blew,
What kept him up there? He stayed, it's true.
--And that spider flew.
Oh! Where was he going?
Or had he been sent?
He was sailing as one,
On some urgent mission bent.
--Seemingly content.
Higher! Higher! He rose!
And little lightning like gleams,
Shooting this way, and that way,
From his small boat it seemed;
--But by what means?
The children, and I watched him,
In awe and delight.
As he sailed over the tree tops,
And out of sight.
Still flying? Right!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
i am also amazed at how a spider manages to span a web between a 10 meter gap.well penned poem here