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Alexandros' Lament
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A poem I'm working on about Alexander (Alexandros) of Macedon seeking the Shade of his beloved friend, Hephastion Amyontoros. The poem is in three part, thus far, the beginning is the speaker's voice or mine that introduces the poem.
Speak through me Divine Apollo
make my voice thine own and take my days numbered under Heaven for thy sake alone. In Babylon's burning summer did great Alexandros sicken unto die leaveth then great sorrow that gods and man did cry. And Babylon cried lamenting and wailed with omens deep of such dark, bitter despair that the gods failed Mankind and fled as the fires lie unkindled in Marduke's great temple there. Here, then, the story of Alexandros seeking Shade hear me, Demeter, Mother Grant him Persphone's aid to lead his constant Patroklus as dreamdt he found weeping and forsaken there and leadth them past the sweeping Gates of Hades to rest in Elyisum there. |
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