~Pensive~

Location: Jumis Studios

Sitting Paragon: Whim

 

 

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From, ODE TO SILENCE

~Edna St Vincent Millay~

 

...

Not you, Melpomene,

Not your incomparable feet, O thin Terpsichore, I seek in this great hall,

But one more pale, more pensive, most beloved of you all.

 

I seek her from afar,

I come from temples where her altars are,

From groves that bear her name,

Noisy with stricken victims now and sacrificial flame,

And cymbals struck on high and strident faces

Obstreperous in her praise

They neither love nor know,

A goddess of gone days,

Departed long ago,

Abandoning the invaded shrines and fanes

Of her old sanctuary,

...

"She will love well," I said,

"If love be of that heart inhabiter,

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Done