The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde - (The Well /Hans Zimmer)

"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is considered one of the best works of Oscar Wilde. Once you read you'll never forget it. Between fame and scandal, art and life, the destiny of one of the most important literary figures, of late nineteenth century, was performed.
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.

I walked, With other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was wondering if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
" That fellow's got to swing ".
[...]
Oscar Wilde

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