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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Sappho

If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHO

Build Marriage Raise Sky
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

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