The Trumpeter Swan Frank Renfrow copyright 1991. I wrote this song in the early 1980s when there was a Swan on the Great Miami River near Lost Bridge. I remember trudging through deep snow to find it around a bend. It was a beautiful Swan and it gave a beautiful soft call with a hauntingly beautiful French Horn-like tone. David Styer returned later to find the Swan shot and floating on the edge, he retrieved it and it was found to be a Trumpeter Swan, a first recent record for our area.