You will find a spring on your left in Hades’ halls
and by it the cypress with its luminous sheen.
Do not go near this spring or drink its water.
You will find another, cold water flowing from Memory’s lake;
its guardians stand before it.
Say: ‘I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven,
but descended from Heaven; you yourselves know this.
I am parched with thirst and dying: quickly, give me
the cool water flowing from Memory’s lake.’
And they will give you water from the sacred spring
and then you will join the heroes at their rites.
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