INVITATION

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Not only she can pull music from your strings, Young lover.

My fingers are as nimble, if the tune I play is strange.

I have coaxed a bacchanal from instruments

As varied

As the rhythm of the orgiastic chant I sing.

So let me play a rondelay that you have

Never heard,

And work upon emotions that you have never felt.

It would be a shame for you to go on

Living,

Loving, not the music, but the instrument itself.

Dorian Mode

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