Two days after the Election

This is a quote from Engine Summer by John Crowley

"In the last month of winter," she began, almost as though she were talking only to the cat at her feet, "which is the first of spring, the ice on the river , which had been solid and could bear weight, broke up and floated away in great clashing chunks, which makes a pretty sight."
"The ice asked: How is it that the river could accomplish such a thing? And the river might answer: Ice set itself a task it could not finish, and all that was left undone remained the river; and for the undoing of what you did do, well, it wasn't I at all but time and change and I am left."
" I say the river might answer so, but it doesn't answer, there being no ice left to answer to."

May we all be blessed and thankful for time and change...