eldorado.

So I was going through an old box heaping with music stuff to research writing the complete story of No. 8056 mostly filling in the gaps coming across invoices for piano movers and clippings from newspapers of pianos I have sold to get to the Bechstein and in the heaps found a printout a few pages dated August 2003 from a no-doubt-now-defunct website called peakspeak.net (maybe has since morphed into summitpost.org) on climbing Eldorado that apparently I wanted to climb even way back then and it included the poem of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe that I - well - quite liked.

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old -

This knight so bold -

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow -

'Shadow,' said he,

'Where can it be -

This land of Eldorado?'

'Over the mountains

of the moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldy ride,'

The shade replied -

'If you seek for Eldorado!'