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

Sappho

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

Love Myself Tremble
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
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

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

Death Evil God Judgement
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

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

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

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

Fall Love Mountain Nature
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

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

Earth Heaven Precious
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

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

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

Anand Thakur

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

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