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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

Sappho

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

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
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
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

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

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

Anand Thakur
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

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

Fall Love Mountain Nature

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

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