Muse of Calliope

Pandora’s Box

Long ago when men were free

From all sorrow and sickness

 

The first woman they made was She,

After the fire from Prometheus.

 

They gave her guile,

They gave her finesse

 

They gave her style,

They gave her a dress

 

They gave her beauty,

They gave her grace

 

They gave her all the gifts

Of the female race

 

And when she was born,

They gave her an urn,

Oh to hold and never open

 

And she was warned,

By a voice quite stern,

That to behold the inner ocean

 

Of all the secrets of the world in depth,

Of Good and Evil, of Life and Death,

 

Would unleash such a plague

Ne’er before seen upon all mankind

 

That would not cease nor break

Ere they restore the long-gone fallen design.......