chapter 9: Orpheus and Eurydice
3: ORPHEUS’ LAMENT
Eurydice dances among the nymphs when a serpent’s bite steals her life away. I call her name, but only the forest answers. My sorrow fills the earth with mourning as flowers bow their heads and rivers weep in sympathy. I sing the threnos for the dead, the ancient lament that carries her name through the land of the living.
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