古人不仅把天鹅说成是一个神奇的歌手,他们还认为,在一切临终时知道感动的生物中,只有天鹅会在弥留时歌唱,用和谐的声音作为它最后叹息的前奏。据他们说,天鹅发出这样柔和、这样动人的声调,是它在将断气的时候,要对生命作一个哀痛而深情的告别;这些声调,如怨如诉,低沉地,悲伤地,凄黯地,构成它自己的丧歌。他们又说,人们可以听到这种歌声,是在朝暾初上、风浪既平的时候; The ancients not only described the swan as a miraculous singer, they also believed that of all the creatures that were known to have moved on the end of their lives, only the swan would sing while she was still, and use a harmonious voice as a prelude to its final sigh. According to them, the swan’s soft, moving tone is that it will make a sorrowful and affectionate farewell to life when it is about to defy; these tones, like grievances and complaints, are low, sadly, gloomy. It constitutes its own funeral song. They also said that people can hear this kind of singing when they are at the beginning of the pilgrimage;