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

Sappho

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

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

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

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
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
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

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

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
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.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself

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

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