SAPPHO

drawn Uiee towards the dark earth, and lo! were
there; and thoa, llest Lady, with a smile on that
immortal faee. didst gently ask what ailed me, and
why 1 called, aud what this wild heart would have
done, and ‘Whom shall I make to give thee reom
in her heart's love, who is it, Sappho, that does thee
wrong? for even if she flees thee, she shall soon
pursue: if she will not lake thy gifts, she yet shall
give; and if she loves not, soon love she shall,
whether or no;’—

O come to me now as thou camest then, to assuage
my sore trouble and do what my heart would fain
have done, thyself my stay in battle.

The verbal beauty and the charm of this passave Ne in the
cohesion aml suvootliness ot the jeinery. Word follows word
imwoven according to certain natural attinitics and groupings
of the letters...

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{Longinus] 7¥e SwAvyme: Since everything Is naturally
accompanied by certain ἈΠ τος or accidents coexistent with
its substamwer, it follows thet we should tind the souree of
sublimity im the tuvariable choice of the most suitable ideas,
antl the power to meke these a siuele whole by combining
them tovether. The first attracts the listener by the choice
of subject-matter. the secoml ly the cohesion of the ideas we
choose, Sapyho, for instance, always expresses the emotions
proper to love-ameduess by means of its actual and visible
eocomitants. [{ you ask where she displays her excellence,
Treply that tt is where she shows her skill, first in choosing,
andl then in combining. tue beet and the most marked of
those concomitants. Compare this:

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