John C Wright - Chapter 1: The Tale lyrics

Once there was a world who loved a forest-girl. The planet was named Ulysses. When she was a forest, she had some other name history forgets. When manifested as a girl, she was called Penelope. No other name will do. The lovers were parted when their existence proved fictive, but reunited and reified by a strange act of suicide on the part of avowed enemies. In that sense, love proved itself stronger than hate, fiction stronger than reality. Much of this tale has been lost, or hidden.