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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

Sappho

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

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

Nature Yourself
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

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