The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHOHow love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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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!
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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