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

Sappho

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
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
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

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

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

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

Fantasy Love One Liner
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature

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

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