Offering

Life Dares to Hope

Offering, Waterhouse painting animated with Dorian Gray II lake applet

The midi you are listening to, 'Tell Him', is by Celine Dion.

You can learn more about her and her music here.

A smile, a laugh, a sigh
A hope, a tear dimmed eye
No ray of sun comes shinning through...
Dreams wither, fade and die
But life goes on
Twilight cracks his eye

The tattered soul lives another day
No longer asking "Why?"
Perchance to meet
Perchance to dream
Under a distant sky
Two souls merge,
Love flares
Spirits soar and fly

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"Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses"
John William Waterhouse - 1891

Circe is a witch and is shown offering a cup of drugged wine to Ulysses, who you can see reflected in the mirror behind her. The full picture, at the Oldham Art Gallery, shows a pig at her feet - one of his crew members who has already been drugged

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