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Once on a time as poets sing	A
High tales with fancy laden	B
Born of a very noble king	A
There lived a wondrous maiden	B
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An only child her kinsfolk boon	C
So fair imagination faints	D
As though amidst the stars the moon	C
Or Mary amidst the saints	D
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From 'neath the castle's dark retreat	E
Her silent way she wended	E
Each evening to the window seat	E
Where Lucifer attended	E
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And secretly with never fail	F
She watched his double race	D
Where vessels drew their pathless trail	F
Across the ocean's face	D
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And as intent she drank his light	E
Desire was quickly there	G
While he who saw her every night	E
Soon fell in love with her	H
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And sitting thus with rested head	E
Her elbows on the sill	I
Her heart by youthful fancy led	E
Did with deep longing fill	I
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While he a brilliant shining spark	J
Glowed always yet more clear	K
Towards the castle tall and dark	J
Where she would soon appear	K
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Until one night with shower of rays	D
He slips into her room	L
As though a strange and silver haze	D
Did round about her loom	L
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And when at last the child to rest	E
Upon her sofa lies	D
He lays her arms across her breast	E
And closes her soft eyes	D
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While where his ray on mirror lands	D
And is upon her couch red rifted	E
It falls upon her throat and hands	D
And on her face uplifted	E
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A smile is on her lips it seems	D
He in the mirror trembles	D
For smooth his ray glides midst her dreams	D
And round her soul assembles	D
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And while she is in slumber gone	M
She murmurs through her sighs	D
'Come down to me beloved one	B
Fair prince of the clear skies	D
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Come down good Lucifer and kind	E
O lord of my aspire	N
And flood my chamber and my mind	E
With your sweetest fire '	-
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And Lucifer beams still more bright	E
To hear her word's emotion	B
Then like a comet in its flight	E
Dives down into the ocean	B
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And where his bolt is lost to view	O
The sea in whirlpool surges	D
Till out of the unfathomed blue	O
A handsome youth emerges	D
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Who leaping off the fretful wave	P
Lightly through her casement passes	D
And in his hand he holds a stave	P
Crowned with a wreath of grasses	D
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A prince indeed of royal stock	Q
With heavy hanging golden hair	G
A purple winding sheet his smock	Q
Hung round his shoulders bare	G
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A starry glow shines from his eyes	D
His cheeks are deathly white	E
A lifeless thing in living guise	D
A youth born of the night	E
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'Down from the spheres do I come	R
Though dreadful the commotion	B
My father is the vaulted dome	S
My mother is the ocean	B
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For I have left my realm to keep	T
Obedience to your command	E
Born of the zenith and the deep	T
Here I before you stand	E
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O come fair child of royal birth	U
Cast this your world aside	E
For Lucifer has flown to earth	U
To claim you as his bride	E
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And you will live till time is done	B
In castles built of sky	V
And all the fish will be your own	W
And all the birds that fly'	O
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'O beautiful you are good Sire	H
As but an angel prince could be	X
But to the course that you desire	H
I never shall agree	X
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Strange as your voice and vesture show	Y
I live while you are dead	E
Your eyes gleam with an icy glow	Y
Which fills my soul with dread '	-
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One day went past and went past two	O
Then o'er the castle dark	J
Fair Lucifer again to view	O
Shone forth his lustrous spark	J
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And scarce his beam waved bright above	Z
Her dreams to him were borne	A2
Her heart again by aching love	Z
And cruel longing torn	A2
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'Come down good Lucifer and kind	E
O lord of my aspire	N
And flood my chamber and my mind	E
With your sweetest fire '	-
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Now as he heard her tender cry	V
With pain he faded out	E
And lightning flew about the sky	V
Which wheeled and rocked about	E
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Around the earth a lurid glow	Y
Poured like a torrent race	D
Till out of its chaotic flow	Y
There grew a human face	D
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About the head dark wisps of hair	G
Girt with a crown of flame	B2
And through the sun illumined air	G
Borne up by truth he came	B2
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His arms of rounded marble sheen	C2
Did 'neath a cloak of raven show	Y
And sad and thoughtful was his mien	C2
And pallid was his brow	D2
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Bright eyes he had that seemed to tell	O
Of strange chimerical bonds	D
And deep they were as passion's spell	O
And dark as moonlit ponds	D
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'Down from the spheres have I flown	W
Though terrible my flight	E
My father wears Apollo's crown	E2
My mother is the night	E
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O come fair child of royal birth	U
Cast this your world aside	E
For Lucifer has flown to earth	U
To claim you as his bride	E
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A starry halo from the skies	D
About your hair will fall	O
And you among the spheres will rise	D
The proudest of them all '	-
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'O beautiful you are good Sire	H
As but a demon prince could be	X
But to the course of your desire	H
I never shall agree	X
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You wound me with your crude behest	E
I dread what you extol	O
Your heavy eyes as though possessed	E
Gleam down into my soul '	-
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'But why should I descend to thee	X
Far better what I give	F2
My days are all eternity	X
While you but one hour live '	-
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'I would not chosen phrases seek	G2
Nor carefully my words arrange	H2
But though with human mouth you speak	G2
Your speech to me is strange	H2
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Yet if you wish to prove your worth	U
That I betroth myself to you	O
Well then come down to me on earth	U
And be a mortal too '	-
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You ask my endless life above	Z
To barter for a kiss	D
Aye I will show how my love	Z
How deep my longing is	D
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My birthright I will fling aside	E
To be reborn of sin and I	V
Who to all rolling time am tied	E
Will that great knot untie '	-
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At which he turned and went away	I2
Midst a cloud of sombre pearl	O
To renounce his birthright from that day	I2
For the love of a mortal girl	O
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About this time young Catalin	E2
Was a page boy of that house	D
Who filled the festive cups with wine	E2
At feast and royal carouse	D
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And carried high the regal train	E2
A foundling brought by chance	D
Born of a humble unknown strain	E2
Though roguish in his glance	D
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Round cheeked like rose apples red	E
Mischievous bright eyed	E
A slipped with quick yet stealthy tread	E
To Catalina's side	E
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Upon my soul Queen of romance	D
Was such a darling ever	H
Come Catalin quick try your chance	D
For now's your time or never	H
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At which he round her waist did twine	E2
His arm in sudden wooing	A
'Behave you rascal Catalin	E2
Whatever are you doing '	-
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'By sorrow brooding all the while	O
You would your heart assuage	J2
But better you would turn and smile	O
And kiss just once your page '	-
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'I know not what your wishes are	K2
Leave me alone you knave	P
Ah me The longing for that star	K2
Will drive me to the grave '	-
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'If you don't know and you would learn	E2
How love is set about	E
Don't recklessly my teaching spurn	E2
First fairly hear me out	E
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As trappers deftly birds pursue	O
With nets among the tree	X
When I stretch out my arm to you	O
Slip your arm thus round me	X
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Your eyes into my eyes must glow	Y
Nor turn away nor close	D
And when I lift you softly so	Y
Rise gently on your toes	D
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And when my face is downwards bent	E
Your face turned up will stay	I2
That we may gaze with sweet intent	E
For ever and a day	I2
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While should you wish at last to learn	E2
The measure of love's bliss	D
When hot my lips on yours do burn	E2
Give back again my kiss '	-
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Amused yet with a girl's surprise	D
At what the youth acclaimed	E
She blushed and turned away her eyes	D
Half willing half ashamed	E
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'A chatterbox you were since small	O
With overmuch to tell	O
Yet I had felt in spite of all	O
We'd suit each other well'	O
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But Lucifer's slow sailing spark	J
Crept up out of the sea	X
Over the horizon's arc	J
Prince of eternity	X
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And now my wretched heart does bleed	E
With tears my eyes grow dim	L2
When e'er I watch the waves that speed	E
Across the sea to him	L2
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While he looms with adoring ray	I2
My grief to overthrow	Y
Yet ever climbs to heights away	I2
Where mortals cannot go	Y
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His silver beams that space defy	V
Sadly my watchers are	K2
And I shall love him till I die	V
Yet he be ever far	K2
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And thus it is the days to me	X
Are drear as desert sand	E
The nights filled with a mystery	X
I dare not understand '	-
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'How childish is the way you speak	G2
Come on Come lets run away	I2
That all the world for us shall seek	G2
Though no one finds the way	I2
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And we shall nothing of this life regret	E
But joyous live and sprightly	X
Till soon your parents you'll forget	E
Nor dream your longings nightly '	-
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Lucifer set out and o'er	H
The sky his wings extended	E
And million years flew past before	M2
As many moments ended	E
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A sky of stars above his way	I2
A sky of stars below	Y
As lightning flash midst them astray	I2
In one continuous flow	Y
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Till round his primal chaos hurled	E
When out of causeless night	E
The first up flaming dawn unfurled	E
Its miracle of light	E
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Still further flew he ere the start	E
Of things of form devoid	E
Spurred by the yearning of his heart	E
Far back into the void	E
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Yet where he reach's is not the bourn	E2
Nor yet where eye can see	X
Beyond where struggling time was torn	E2
Out of eternity	X
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Around him there was naught And still	O
Strange yearning there was yet	E
A yearning that all space did fill	O
As when the blind forget	E
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'O Father God this knot untie	V
Of my celestial birth	U
And praised you will be on high	V
And on the rolling earth	U
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The price you ask is little count	E
Give fate another course	D
For you are of fair life the fount	E
And of calm death the source	D
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Take back this halo from my head	E
Take back my starry lower	H
And give to me o God instead	E
Of human love one hour	H
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Out of the chaos was I wrought	E
In chaos would I be dispersed	E
Out of the empty darkness brought	E
For darkness do I thirst '	-
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'Hyperion o child divine	E2
Don't thus your state disclaim	B2
Nor ask for miracle nor sign	E2
That has nor sense nor name	B2
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You wish to be a man of son	E2
To be a star you scorn	E2
But men quick perish every one	E2
And men each day are born	E2
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Yet stars burn on with even glow	Y
And it is fate's intending	A
That they nor time nor place shall know	Y
Unfettered and unending	A
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Out of eternal yesterday	E
Into tomorrow's grave	P
Even the sun will pass way	E
That other sun's shall lave	P
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The sun that every morn does rise	D
At last it's spirit gives	D
For each thing lives because it dies	D
And dies because it lives	D
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But you Hyperion never wane	E2
Night's miracle sublime	N2
But in the sky your place retain	E2
The wonder of all time	N2
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So what strange fancy holds your mind	E
What dreaming thus berates you	O
Return to earth and there you'll find	E
The awakening that awaits you '	-
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Hyperion did straightway go	Y
To where through ages gone	E2
His gleam upon the earth below	Y
Nightly he had shone	E2
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And it was evening when he came	B2
Night's darkness slow assembled	E
And rose the moon a frozen flame	B2
That in the water trembled	E
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And filled the forest's twilight clime	B2
With a silver starry mist	E
Where 'neath a tall and spreading lime	B2
Two fair haired children kissed	E
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'O let me lay in lover's wise	D
My head upon your breast	E
Beneath the wonder of your eyes	D
In soft and fragrant rest	E
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In mystery's enchanted light	E
Pervade me with your charm	B2
And flood my soul through passion's night	E
With time's eternal calm	B2
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O quench my longing's eager thirst	E
My aching doubts overcast	E
For you to me are love the first	E
And of my dreams the last '	-
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Hyperion gazed down and knew	O
The fire their souls possessed	E
For scarce the boy her nearer drew	O
She clasped him to her breast	E
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A rain of petals in the air	G
That softly did enfold	E
Two fervent children strangely fair	G
With locks of plated gold	E
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She lost in love's enraptured flight	E
To heaven turned her eyes	D
Saw Lucifer's down shining light	E
And whispered through her sighs	D
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'Come down good Lucifer and kind	E
O lord of my aspire	N
And fill the forest and my mind	E
With your sweetest fire '	-
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And Lucifer alone in space	D
Her tender summons heard	E
A planet o'er the ocean's face	D
That trembled at her word	E
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But did not plunge as in former day	E
And in his heart did cry	V
'O what care you fair face of clay	E
If it be he or I	V
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Still earth shall only earth remain	E2
Let luck its course unfold	E
And I in my own kingdom reign	E2
Immutable and cold '	-
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Translated by Corneliu M Popescu	Y