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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.

Sappho

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
SAPPHO

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

Love Myself Tremble
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

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

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.

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