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Strumming Dirge With the Broken String

the lyre appears in the summer night sky by the foot of Zeus’ throne in the delta region was once strummed by the hands floating on the Hebrus; the tune of dirge was heartrending, the pieces of limbs chopped off and threw into the river playing was so sad; it touched Zeus’ heart and therefore he ordered the eagle to lift it up from the river and hang up by his foot though the appealing lyre’s tune played by Orpheus which drew tears from the eyes of a cold woman, the goddess of death Persephone, stop echoing in the sky as the constellation of lyre sunk behind autumn however, an eagle hovering in the dark went after the disappeared lyre and strummed it with his sharp talon; the tune the eagle pecked on the broken strings with his hooked beak is Orpheus’ anxious call for Eurydice wandering in the pine grove; the broken string’s painful cry now echoes again in the air to spread the heartrending story behind the crying lyre

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