99, Upon the strings

SAPPHO

(Lobel-Page 99 – Σαπφώ – English translation)

NOTE: See 155, Polyanax's daughter.

] among the palm branches [

] child of Polyanax [

] the Sameans [

Upon the strings plucking out

Glissandos, welcoming the seat-filling

By our guests: so fond they are of the sound

Of a lyre that trills gently,

Good-sounding, echoing through the bone-hollow –

Then down the marrow – and inwards runs resounding.