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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away


Sappho

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When we were new at this,
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That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we ...
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SAPPHO Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO The evening star

Is the most
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of all stars
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SAPPHO We shall enjoy it

As for him who finds
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because I prayed
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