Elegy Island. This happened a long, long time ago. On a small island - which has since perished - they had an odd custom. They mourned their dead with song: with elegies. The songs would play without ceasing from the last moments before death, through the funeral, to the burial. Elegies would be sung for many purposes: to ease the grief of the family, to recall the legacy of the deceased, to appease the soul of the one who died under stressful cicumstances, to celebrate one person's having lived to a ripe, old age, or to evoke anger at another's pointless death. "That far" is no exaggeration. END