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

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
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
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

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

Death Evil God Judgement
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

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

Death Decision God Sick
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

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

Nature Yourself
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve

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

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