To create this song, the band worked closely with Howard Shore, the music writer for the movie "Eclipse."

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We have an image here of the reconstituted, repaired body of Orpheus whose gory, severed head had been sent down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. It's as if Milton can't let go of this most un-Christian attachment to the human body.

想到一个完整的被修复好了的俄耳甫斯的身体,他血淋淋的被割下来的头颅曾,被赫伯鲁河一路冲下去直到莱斯博斯岛，似乎弥尔顿放不开,这对人体的眷恋，而这与基督教教义正相反。

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Satan may be like the wind, Orion, but Orion here is also seen as vexing and destroying the Egyptians whose carcasses wash up on the shores of the Red Sea, and the Israelites, having crossed the Red Sea safely, look on at this destruction from the safety of their shore.

撒旦或许像风神一样，但是这里的风神在怒吼，在摧毁着埃及人,他们的尸体横陈在红海上，而以色列人，却平安的穿过了红海，从安全的海岸回望身后的摧枯拉朽。

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