黑河内梦路 2007-8-8 17:32
The Song of Orpheus
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I journeyed to this world below, to which all born as mortals must descend in time.
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I sing an honest song, and i will tell the truth, unvarnished, and in my own way.v!w9Ay:TZk
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I came because my wife was killed before her days in lands above were due to end.
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Eurydice disturbed a serpent and it poured its poison deep into her precious veins.
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I was not strong enough to bear my grief.
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Love was too strong for me, and dragged me down.
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The power of love is strong in lands above.
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And love is known here too, if all the tales of passion, aye,7}+H#NjWdG_
and rape so long ago have any truth or honesty to them.
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They say you two were bound as one by love.2B,V8gM d{0YH
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I beg you, by these silent realms, to weave again the destiny, of one who died too soon.
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For we the living will be yours one day and all we hope and feel and touch and dream,
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all we hold dear, will wither and be gone.J\7t3]e5fLS(P
For at the end,with pennies on our eyes, we die and rot.X U
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And then, as hollow ghosts we'll dwell below: our last, our final home.