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| Orpheus and Eurydice, 1893, Auguste Rodin |
The beloved bride of the
poet-bard Orpheus,
Was claimed by death
He descended into the shadowed
realm beneath the earth,
Carrying only his lyre and his
undying love.
So moving was his lament
That even the rulers of the
dead relented,
Granting Eurydice’s return
upon one condition:
He must not look upon her
Until both had emerged from
the kingdom of shades.
Yet at the threshold
Between darkness and light,
Doubt overcame faith.
Orpheus turned, and in that
fatal instant
Eurydice vanished once more
into the depths of Hades.
