SAPPHO
(Lobel-Page 30 – Σαπφώ – English translation)
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Night [
Maidens [
Celebrating all night [
May sing of your love and your
Violet-girdled bride.
But having awakened, to the bachelors
Go – your equals in age – so that less
Than whatever the shrill-voiced bird sees of it,
Would we now see of sleep.