SAPPHO
43

From a Second-Century Papyrus:

And them I answered: " Gentle dames. how you
will evermore remember till vou be old, our life
together in the heyday of youth! For many things
did we then together both pure and beautiful. And

now that you depart hence, love wriugs my heart

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with very anguish.

44

From the Same:

For when I look upon you, then meseems
Hermione! was never such as you are, and just it is
to liken you rather to Helen than to a mortal
maid; nay, I tell you, I render your beauty the
sacrifice of all my thoughts and worship you with all
my desires,

Yas daughter of Helen, Hermione was one remove less
divine

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