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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

Sappho

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

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

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
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
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

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

Experience Neighbor Virtue
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

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