Diamond And Sizif Poem by ENO SUTRAMAN

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It was told that long time ago, in a faraway land, in a small town,
Near a majestic, huge mountain lived long ago as it may well be in our Times master mason and carpenter, at his work smart and persistent
By thename Sizif- a stately man, a sway in broad shoulders, great might in body, blacker than pitchdark blackness were his curls,
The eyes of a bottomless dark blue lake with which fell in love and married a fiery red beauty Amida defying her father's staunchwill, a rich merchant.
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Sizif loved Amida; it seemed to him when in the dark bluetwilight of evening
She came out to meet him that the red sun itself approached him to Embrace and kiss him with its own golden rays...
They haven't any children and lived behind the city walls in a small house Withgarden- with a sweep of fields and a forest to the right, the stately mountain in the middle, the Count's castle on a hill to the left.
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Sizif was dreaming, looking at the hiding behind the mountain sun
To build a worthy of the sunny beauty of his wife house
To have children there.
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In that land the ruler was count Torrino-a cold-eyed, flexibly spreading
All over his possessions his long body governor, he was not married,
Were fascinated by castles and palaces to that end had he ordered from Overseas a famous architect who arrived and built a terrace in the form
Of a ship's deck andan intricate sun dial and now was loitering around
The park watching peacocks taking off their manners of walk and cries.
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But the overpowering passion of the count was gems of all shapes, Colors and shades in the most fanciful exquisite settings;
For a long time Torrino possessed a diamond of incomparable properties
Now it here flared up with red flames, then there was this mirror blue and crystal Tone of the edges and suddenly this blackness between the blaze of facets
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Alone for hours Torrino reveled in the stinging lights of his stone
At different lights of day, twilight, candle and chandelier
But then a thought came to stay and followed him everywhere that this
Wonderful gem needs a worthy setting.
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Finally called he in a skilled jeweler from the town showed him the Stone,
Ordered strictly without changing the form or properties make for the Diamond a setting worthy its magic.
Gioviglio, which was his name, gladly accepted the order,
His daughter's wedding was imminent expenses would be great.
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The same evening Sizif standing in his garden, looking at the setting behind the mountain sun decided to build a house on the mountain for Amida and every other day, day after day he began to bring stones and all
The other things onto the mountain, soon the overseas architect knew about the house on the mountain and offered his help free.
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After a while the architect showed to Sizif a sketch of an Ark-House with Large stained glass windowsand roof in the form of an ark,
Sizif liked the project and on the mountain began to emerge the
Ark-House
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Meanwhile the jeweler offered nine times drawings of settings for the diamond to the count which were rejected with a cold sneer and the wedding of his daughter was postponed.
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Going around his lands the count twice made a silent notice of the Strange edifice being built on his mountain; for the first time it winked with its features at him whitish foggy in the dense dusk of evening, on a clear day it suddenly overwhelmed him as being alive with its huge blue eyes windows.But Torrino forgot about it...
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The tenth drawing of setting for the diamond was submittedand approved by the count.In a hurry the jeweller began to work and made a Mistake in his calculations; the stone did not fit in the setting, he had to Cut it some places, after the completion of his work he went to present his
Creation to the castle of the count
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Torrino received him in his study; candles were burning, predatory was the sheen of the huge golden mirrors, from behind the heavy dark blue curtains of patterns in golden thread the setting sun was hardly visible,
In the blackness of a far away corner of the study on a low carved table there was a velvet pouch.
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On entering the jeweler took out a morocco box and opened it; a crystal ding dong of the blue facets blazed out, the dazzling bright blades of the polished darkness lashed out Torrino bowing his head over the stone in a Regal crown, silently pointed at the the table and door, He turned the gem, took it nearer to and away from the candles-there were none, there were no red flashes! He rushed to the window, took away the curtains,
lifted the stone to the light...and saw that strange edifice, on the mountain's black face huge two blue eyes were shining,
In the womb of the arkthere was the Sun.





Afterword - Jeweller Gioviglio rotted alive, chained to a pillar in the dungeon of the castle, Sizif was forced to destroy his ark-house and
for many years he dragged his stones from the mountain and up againuntil exhausted he died under one of them - Count Torrino came to inspect his corpse,
tried to rip off a medallion from him and was bitten by a snake from which he died instantly, Amida managed to escape and gave birth to a handsome son - they say he became a famous master like his father.