Pascal Bertram

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Terra Incognita

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Winter Solo

So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.

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Diana Lucifera

Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains, And like a prophetess of May Strewed flowers upon the barren way, Making the wintry world appear Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.

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Persephone

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Phaethon

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Autumn Duo

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Son Of Thunder

Sollemne Phoebus carmen infusis humero capillis cantat et geminus Cupido concutit taedas; telum deposuit Iuppiter igneum conditque Baccho veniente fulmen. Lucida dum current annosi sidera mundi, Oceanus clausum dum fluctibus ambiet orbem Lunaque dimissos dum plena recolliget ignes, dum matutinos praedicet Lucifer ortus altaque caeruleum dum Nerea nesciet Arctos, candida formosi venerabimur ora Lyaei.

Phoebus a stately anthem sings, with his locks flowing down his shoulders, and twin Cupides brandish their torches. Jupiter lays aside his fiery weapons and, when Bacchus comes, abhors his thunderbolt. While the bright stars of the ancient heavens shall run in their courses; while Oceanus shall encircle the imprisoned earth with its waters; while full Luna gather again her lost radiance; while Lucifer shall herald the dawn of the morning and while the lofty Bears shall know naught of caerulean Nereus; so long shall we worship the shining face of beauteous Lyaeus.

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Straylight

Auf tausendfach verschlungnen Wegen Der reichen Mannigfaltigkeit Kommt dann umarmend euch entgegen Am Thron der hohen Einigkeit. Wie sich in sieben milden Strahlen Der weiße Schimmer lieblich bricht, Wie sieben Regenbogenstrahlen Zerrinnen in das weiße Licht: So spielt in tausendfacher Klarheit Bezaubernd um den trunknen Blick, So fließt in 𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯 Bund der Wahrheit, In 𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯 Strom des Lichts zurück!

On thousandfold winding paths Of rich manifold Come then towards each other embracing At the throne of high unity. As in seven mild rays The white shimmer lovely breaks, As seven rainbow rays Dissolve into the white light: So play in thousandfold clarity Enchantingly around the drunken gaze, So flow into 𝘰𝘯𝘦 bond of truth, Back into 𝘰𝘯𝘦 stream of light!

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Arteria

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Spring Trio

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Palace Of Chains

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Saray

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Damasia

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To A Distant Star

Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls.

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Deucalion

But I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point. I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the shore!

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Aurora

Et iam Mygdoniis elata cubilibus alto impulerat caelo gelidas Aurora tenebras, rorantes excussa comas multumque sequenti sole rubens; illi roseus per nubila seras advertit flammas alienumque aethera tardo Lucifer exit equo, donec pater igneus orbem impleat atque ipsi radios vetet esse sorori.

And now Aurora rising from her Mygdonian resting-place had scattered the cold shadows from the high heaven, and shaking the dew-drops from her hair blushed deep in the sun's pursuing beams; toward her through the clouds rosy Lucifer turns his late fires, and with slow steed leaves an alien world, until the fiery father's orb be full replenished and he forbid his sister to usurp his rays.