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White marble statue of Apollo playing a lyre in a mystical, sun-dappled forest with ancient Greek ruins.

White marble statue of Apollo playing a lyre in a mystical, sun-dappled forest with ancient Greek ruins.

In groves where wit and beauty softly tread, (A) The laurel leans to whisper truths half-spoken; (B) Apollo’s lyre plays where hearts are broken, (B) While Aphrodite stirs the roses red. (A) Bold Nature weaves her crown from what is shed— (A) A cloak of leaves, by silent winds awoken. (B) Through ruined halls where ancient oaths were broken, (B) The self walks free, though time has long since fled. (A) I scorn the golden chains of Saturn’s law, (C) For Juno’s gaze cannot command my name. (D) The stars bend not to class or courtly claim— (E) Yet still, in Zeus’s storm, I stand in awe. (C) One voice, alone, through fate and myth shall flame, (D) A soul unshaped by fear, yet shaped by flaw. (E) See more