Jon Corelis - Eros: Chorus from Euripides' Hippolytos - ноты, текст песни (слова)

Eros, Eros, sweetly despoiling
 human hearts with your passionate fire,
 never, never may you invade me
 with so destructive a flood of desire.
 Mightier, mightier than any gleaming
 starlight endlessly piercing night's radiance,
 stronger than torches that paint the dark with flame,
 flies the fatal shaft of the Love God,
 child of all-seeing Zeus on Olympus
 and Aphrodite: it strikes with deadly aim.
  
 Vainly, vainly famous Olympia
 and Delphi's holy oracular shrine
 richly, richly garner their harvest
 of sacrifice and libations of wine:
 O my country, why do you never
 make oblation in honor of Eros,
 born of the Love Queen to rule the minds of all?
 Eros, guardian of Aphrodite's
 sacred chamber is mightier than armies:
 he is the conqueror whose power makes cities fall. 
 
 Aphrodite kindled in Helen
 a passion stronger than duty or shame:
 Priam's city, ancient and splendid,
 is nothing now but a song and a name.
 Death and terror, fire and destruction
 blossomed forth from her heartbreaking loveliness,
 leaving Troy's citadel ashes soaked with blood.
 Dreadful, dreadful comes Aphrodite,
 whirling all in her devastating hurricane,
 quick as a honeybee that seeks a springtime bud.