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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

After the death of my mother, the work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard



Juliusz Słowacki — a remark

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“I cried with such sobbing as I had once done as a child, for that letter made me a child again.”

Original: Płakałem z takiem łkaniem jak dawniej, kiedy byłem dzieckiem, bo też list ten nanowo dzieckiem mię zrobił. — Memory and correspondence collapse the distance between the adult exile and the child he once was. · Letter to his mother, 1830s (Polish)

About Juliusz Słowacki

Juliusz Słowacki

4 September 1809–3 April 1849

Juliusz Słowacki was born on 4 September 1809 in Krzemieniec, in Volhynia, a town then located within the Russian Empire and now known as Kremenets in Ukraine. He died in Paris on 3 April 1849, not yet forty years old, but by then he had produced a body of poetry and drama of extraordinary range, daring, and…

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“The happiness of this earthly life is only a secondary thing, as all those know who have pursued happiness and found its fruit bitter.”

Original: Lecz to szczęście ziemskie jest tylko podrzędną rzeczą i wiedzą o tem wszyscy, którzy tylko za szczęściem gonili, i którym ten owoc w ustach zgorzkniał. — He places worldly happiness below the deeper spiritual purposes that increasingly governed his life. · Letter to his mother, 18 March 1843 (Polish)

“Whoever comes first with such poetry, I shall make a pedestal of all my books for him and lie beneath his feet myself, so that he may stand higher.”

Original: Kto pierwszy z taką poezyą przyjdzie, ja mu z wszystkich książek moich postument zrobię, i sam się położę pod nogami, aby stał wyżej i prawdę zawsze oglądał z wysoka. — He values poetry that serves truth so highly that personal literary fame becomes secondary. · Letter to his mother, February 1845 (Polish)

“Now I wake each morning inwardly cheerful, and remain so for the whole day, ready to bathe everyone who approaches in the light of my spirit and fill them with joy until they fall into harmony with me.”

Original: Teraz ja budzę się co rano i wraz rozweselony jestem wnętrznie i już na cały dzień taki zostaję, gotów każdego, co się przybliży, oblać jasnością ducha i rozradować go, aż się do harmonii ze mną ułoży. — A striking expression of spiritual joy as something that can be shared with others. · Letter to his mother, 16 April 1844 (Polish)

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