A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning

from Lucifer - A Rock Opera by Adrian Tabacaru

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As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,

'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant,

But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
Whose soul is sense cannot admit

Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined
That our selves know not what it is

Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two.
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.

"I take a peek inside my mind
Animal happiness find
Its beautifully identifiable intelligence
That space
Electrically bioelectrogenetically
Multidisciplinarianismic
Creativity place."

And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th' other foot, obliquely run.
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

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from Lucifer - A Rock Opera, released January 15, 2020

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Lucifer - A Rock Opera Bucharest, Romania

Based on the poem "Luceafărul" by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, translated in English by Dimitrie Cuclin, "Lucifer" Rock- Opera is composed and produced by Adrian Tăbăcaru during 2014-2018. Recorded at Taine-Multimedia Studio, mixed & mastered at Fascination Street Studios by Jens Bogren in 2019, the album features top-class musicians and actors from Romania and UK. Cover by Costin Chioreanu. ... more

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