"PS-400 Old Poets- Cleopatra Slowly Dying" by Numi Who

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song to the old poem "Cleopatra Dying" by (the old poet) Thomas Stephens Collier ver. cleopatra_slowly_dying

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Numi Who

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Cover Songs on Soundclick: https://www.soundclick.com/numiwhocreativecovers Writing: https://allpoetry.com/Mr._Numi_Who- Books: Numi Who? on Amazon (books) Art: http://wbiro.deviantart.com Early Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38154648@N00 Music Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/wbiro Self-made Music Catalog (to 2016): http://numi-imagination-creations.me/01-art-catalog/wbiro_artistic_catalog_1967-2016_update_34.html Original Music on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/wbiro Cover Songs on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/user-288568536

Song Info

Genre

Podcasts • Poetry

Charts

Peak #19

Peak in subgenre #5

Author

music: wbiro

Rights

wbiro

Uploaded

September 11, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:47

Story behind the song

song to "Cleopatra Dying" by Thomas Stephens Collier

Lyrics

Sinks the sun below the desert,
Golden glows the sluggish Nile;
Purple flame crowns spring and temple,
Lights up every ancient pile.

Where the old gods now are sleeping,
Isis and Osires great,
Guard me, help me, give me courage,
Like a Queen to meet my fate!

I am dying, Egypt, dying,
Let the Ceasar's army come,
I will cheat him of his glory,
Though beyond the Styx I roam!

Shall he drag this beauty with him,
While the crowd his triumph sings?
No, no, never! I will show him
What lies in the blood of Kings!

Though he holds the golden Scepter,
Rules the Pharaoh's sunny land,
Where old Nilus rolls resistless
Through the sweeps of silvery sand.

He shall never say I met him
Fawning, abject, like a slave.
I will foil him, though to do it
I must cross the Stygian wave!

Cleopatra slowly dying,
upon proud Egypt's plain!

from "Cleopatra Dying" by Thomas Stephens Collier

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