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[Anonymous No.17662914]

>One must imagine Sisyphus horny

[Anonymous No.17663107]

Orpheus is his salvation.
One must imagine Sisyphus sanguine.
Eternity in a moment, the peace he must have felt as all reality fell silent.
Entering beyond the cave, to hear true beauty.


My mission is to find Eurydice,
A girl whose thoughts were innocent and gay,
Yet tripped upon a snake who struck his poison
Into her veins---then her short walk was done.
However much I took her loss serenely,
A god called Love had greater strength than I;
I do not know how well he's known down here,
But up on Earth his name's on every tongue,
And If I'm to believe an ancient rumour,
A dark king took a princess to his bed,
A child more beautiful than any queen;
They had been joined by Love. So at your mercy,
And by the eternal Darkness that surrounds us,
I ask you to unspin the fatal thread
Too swiftly run, too swiftly cut away,
That was my bride's brief life. Hear me, and know
Another day, after our stay on Earth,
Or swift or slow, we shall be yours forever,
Speeding at last to one eternal kingdom---
Which is our one direction and our home
And yours the longest reign mankind has known.
When my Eurydice has spent her stay on Earth,
The child, a lovely woman in your arms,
Then she'll return and you may welcome her.
But for the present I must ask a favour;
Let her come back to me to share my love,
Yet if the Fates say 'No,' here shall I stay---
Two deaths in one---my death as well as hers."

Since these pathetic words were sung to music
Even the blood-drained ghosts of Hell fell weeping:
Tantalus no longer reached toward vanished waves
And Ixion's wheel stopped short, charmed by the spell;
Vultures gave up their feast on Tityus' liver
And cocked their heads to stare, fifty Belides
Stood gazing while their half-filled pitchers emptied,
And Sisyphus sat down upon his stone.

[Anonymous No.17663519]

>>17663107
immensely based Ovidposter