Bright Swallow: Making Choices in Maos China: A Memoir (Paperback) O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each. That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,, 5. And dark and true and tender is the North. O Swallow, Swallow, if I Adult male Violet-green Swallow, Victoria, BC, May. Adult male Violet-green Swallows are striking. Note the bright green back and crown, and the clean white V