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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=71415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fountain Of Salmacis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hermaphrodite: a flower containing both male and female organs; a person or animal of both sexes.<br>The child hermaphroditus was the son of hermes and aphrodite, the result of a secret love affair. for this reason he was entrusted to the nymphs of the isolated mount ida, who allowed him to gro<br>As a wild creature of the woods. after his encounter with the water-nymph salmacis, he laid a curse upon the water. according to fable, all persons who bathed in the water became hermaphrodites.<br>From a dense forest of tall dark pinewood,<br>Mount ida rises like an island.<br>Within a hidden cave, nymphs had kept a child;<br>Hermaphroditus, son of gods, so afraid of their love.<br>As the dawn creeps up the sky<br>The hunter caught sight of a doe.<br>In desire for conquest,<br>He found himself within a glade hed not beheld before.<br>Hermaphroditus: narrator:<br>Where are you, my father? then he could go no farther<br>Give wisdom to your son now lost, the boy was guided by the sun<br>And as his strength began to fail<br>He saw a shimmering lake.<br>A shadow in the dark green depths<br>Disturbed the strange tranquility.<br>Salmacis: narrator:<br>The waters are disturbed the waters are disturbed<br>Some creature has been stirred naiad queen salmacis has been stirred<br>As he rushed to quench his thirst,<br>A fountain spring appeared before him<br>And as his heated breath brushed through the cool mist,<br>A liquid voice called, son of gods, drink from my spring.<br>The water tasted strangely sweet.<br>Behind him the voice called again.<br>He turned and saw her, in a cloak of mist alone<br>And as he gazed, her eyes were filled with the darkness of the lake.<br>Salmacis: narrator:<br>We shall be one she wanted them as one<br>We shall be joined as one yet he had no desire to be one<br>Hermaphroditus: away from me cold-blooded woman<br>Your thirst is not mine<br>Salmacis: nothing will cause us to part<br>Hear me, o gods<br>Unearthly calm descended from the sky<br>And then their flesh and bones were strangely merged<br>Forever to be joined as one.<br>The creature crawled into the lake.<br>A fading voice was heard:<br>And I beg, yes I beg that all who touch this spring<br>May share my fate<br>Salmacis: narrator:<br>We are the one the two are now made one,<br>We are the one demi-god and nymph are now made one<br>Both had given everything they had.<br>A lovers dream had been fulfilled at last,<br>Forever still beneath the lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />song performed by by Genesis - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q>
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