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He wishes for the clothes of heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with
golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark clothes
Of night and light and half-light,
I would
spread the cloths under your feet;
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-W.B.Yeats (1865-1939)
The Fountain Of Salmacis lyrics
From a dense forest of tall, dark pinewood,
Mount
Ida rises like an island.
Within a hidden cave, nymphs had kept a child;
Hermaphroditus, son of gods, so afraid of their
love.
As the dawn creeps up the sky
The hunter caught sight of a doe.
In desire for conquest,
He found himself
within a glade he'd not beheld before.
Hermaphroditus:
"Where are you, my father?
Give wisdom to your son"
Narrator:
"Then he could go no farther
Now lost, the boy was guided by the sun"
And
as his strength began to fail
He saw a shimmering lake.
A shadow in the dark green depths
Disturbed the strange tranquillity.
Salmacis:
"The waters are disturbed
Some creature has been stirred"
Narrator:
"The waters are disturbed
Naiad queen Salmacis has been stirred"
As he rushed to quench his thirst,
A
fountain spring appeared before him
And as his heated breath brushed through the cool mist,
A liquid voice called, "Son
of gods, drink from my spring".
The water tasted strangely sweet.
Behind him the voice called again.
He turned
and saw her, in a cloak of mist alone
And as he gazed, her eyes were filled with the darkness of the lake.
Salmacis:
"We shall be one
We shall be joined as one"
Narrator:
"She
wanted them as one
Yet he had no desire to be one"
Hermaphroditus: "Away from me cold-blooded woman
Your thirst
is not mine"
Salmacis: "Nothing will cause us to part
Hear me, O Gods"
Unearthly calm descended from the sky
And
then their flesh and bones were strangely merged
Forever to be joined as one.
The creature crawled into the lake.
A
fading voice was heard:
"And I beg, yes I beg that all who touch this spring
May share my fate"
Salmacis:
"We
are the one We are the one"
Narrator:
"The two are now made one,
Demi-god and nymph are now made
one"
Both had given everything they had.
A lover's dream had been fulfilled at last,
Forever still beneath the
lake.
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The Last Dragon
Beneath a high mountain,
Inside a dark cave,
A crusty
old dragon,
As cold as the grave.
As cold as the high,
Vaulted stone overhead.
As cold as the gold,
That
is spilled as his bed.
The last of the dragons.
There will be no more.
And slow beats his heart,
On
his glittering store.
The beating gets slower,
As life drifts away.
A hundred more lifetimes
Just pass
in a day.
At last a low moan
Where there once was a roar.
The last of the dragons is breathing no more.
-Ian Larmont-
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