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

Sappho

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

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

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

Love Myself Tremble
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

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

Beautiful Evening Stars
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
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

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

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