Orpheus

Orpheus he played his lyre and sang to the underworld

Descended Into hades charmed the tortured souls therein

He had to find his wife and bring her back to life again

His beloved eurydice was a nymph of oak but she

Met her cruel end when bitten by a snake

When she was running away from aristaeus along the river bank

The gods they did agree to let her go as long as he

Never turned behind as they ascended up again

But orpheus he did not trust and turned around to see

So orpheus lost his beloved to the underworld

And hades turned away from all his please so tragically

Poor orpheus melodious

He never wed again

Orpheus was killed by all the lovers he had spurned

They came at him with stones and clubs and tore him to pieces

He only had his lyre and the muses wept for him