Saturday
May142011
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
By Kate Wilhelm
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a post apocalyptic science fiction story in which humanity is surviving a worldwide ecosystem collapse due to cloning. It covers several generations start with the collapse of the world and shows the civilization that is created from it.
The title of the story is from Shakesphere's Sonnet 73 and was nominated for the 1976 Nebula and Won the 1977 Hugo award for best novel.
Saturday
May142011
Shakespeare Sonnet 73
Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 10:43PM The title of this book comes from Shakesphere's Sonnet 73, but it is nice to know where the title came from. Whether it actually informs the story or is just an interesting name is up to you.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.