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I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...

A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever

Arma Virumque Cano (I sing of arms and of man) -The Aeneid

But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I’ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be - if I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!

But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

Death's brother, sleep.

Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly's lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city's heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade.

the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.

To what crime do you not drive the hearts of men, accursed hunger for gold?