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Pericles' Bane
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Pericles' Bane |
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Chalmette Guy Senior Member
since 2009-03-11
Posts 1257Louisiana 
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Fleeting is the fortunate, fanciful fame Wake not where from wistful, wondrous dreams Pursued perchance by perfectly popular shame Transcended most torturous tasks and themes Now some nine and twenty nights of your name To scale the serpentine paths of scandalous signs And move the mountains of monsters and men That deities deem disposable pawns by design To therefore rise in totality against them Singing songs of symbolic surrendering time Behold the beginnings of bright and beautiful fame For in those feelings first, and foremost Lies a love of life that lays no blame And a chanting chorus you come to compose A song for heroic hearts to heal half the shame |
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EagleScorpion Senior Member
since 2000-03-08
Posts 1644Here, Now, Forever |
this is extraordinary. fantastic!!! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"Behold the beginnings of bright and beautiful fame For in those feelings first, and foremost Lies a love of life that lays no blame And a chanting chorus you come to compose A song for heroic hearts to heal half the shame" Your handling the stories of the Athenian leader is very interesting Jer. Pericles was a grat orator, populist, and an important figure in the arts as well. All that alliteration, WOW! Unbelievable! You never cease to amaze me how many subjects you adeptly write about. Into my library with several others. |
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Suncleaver Member
since 2009-01-18
Posts 481Stafford England |
You never cease to amaze me. Your talent is stellar. And all the roads that I've been strolling down... now I've found they all seem to be marooned. So profoundly doomed. |
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