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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.

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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I 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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“The project, conceived long ago and several times rejected as too frightening an undertaking, has finally come to pass.”

Original: Projekt ten, od dawna zrobiony i kilka razy odrzucony ode mnie jako nadto straszne przedsięwzięcie, przyszedł na koniec do skutku. — A characteristic mixture of apprehension and determination before his journey east. · Letter to his mother, 24 August 1836 (Polish)

Juliusz Słowacki

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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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“Everything on earth can be done, provided that we always keep before our eyes the straight path, one star, God, and seek through the spirit's deeds the body's achievement of the spirit's immortality.”

Original: Wszystko na ziemi robić można, byle zawsze przed oczyma mieć drogę prostą, jedną gwiazdę – Boga – zdobycie przez ducha swego czynami ciała nieśmiertelności ducha. — He connects purposeful action with spiritual aspiration and immortality. · Letter to his mother, 28 November 1843 (Polish)

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