Cantilena
Unicorn, thou hath seen this cage before Thou hath heard it's madness calling Thou hath seen thine own silver blood come pouring from thine own sweet dancing hooves Nightingale, you falter Thine...
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Darkness she becomes to those in denial of their shadows Thus their shadows ever darken as e'er lingers their denial Cut them down in thou dance, my lovely ballerina for their thorns are wretched in...
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Show their eyes the darkening land they have tried to conquer Let them sit in the bloodied fields and see: - - The weeping child who offered her tears to the thirsty yet they refused to drink from the...
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"Thou hath deceived me", saith the fallen wolf-crier "None did'st believe me, no, but blessed me with fire Thus spoke I nay more, nor did'st holt thou desire Ne'er more to watch o'er...
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...and the unicorn did'st fall as the minstrel did'st cage the now ever songless bird Into madness ...and the nightingale fell as the blood poured from her still glistening tearful eyes into madness...
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Weeping too... ...and wept for thee did'st I A thousand tears fell from my eyes, to die... ...and in each one a thousand dreams gone by... And for each dream a thousand more I'd cry... ...For the...
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Come into my term of doom... For all who have with minstrels been are crucified as devils - That is our fate Look into the eyes of one who's seen twisted premonitions of their great, their only way...
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Where were you this winter as frost lay upon the ground? I was not far, for I could feel you sorrow Not far at all, my love I was the frost upon the ground ...before spring came and blue light shone...
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Darkness failed to cool the summer night The dying birds wept under starlight when my barren Earth longed for their song the most Alas, where were you then? I was the silence of the thirst-fallen...
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But wept too did'st I
for this lonely ballerina as she danced
and for her songs
for they are the trials of one unheard
Alone, as her dance revealed her own
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