Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
From a single crime know the nation.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Thus shall you go to the stars.
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men