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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Sappho

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

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

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