{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos20.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos20.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nVesper is here! behold\n \u00a0\u00a0Faint gleams that welcome shine!\n Rise from the feast, O youths,\n \u00a0\u00a0And chant the fescennine!\nBefore the porch we sing\n \u00a0\u00a0The hymeneal song;\n Vesper is here, O youths!\n \u00a0\u00a0The star we waited long.\nWe lead the festal groups\n \u00a0\u00a0Across the bridegroom's porch;\n Vesper is here, O youths!\n \u00a0\u00a0Wave high the bridal torch.\nHail, noble bridegroom, hail!\n \u00a0\u00a0The virgin fair has come;\n Unlatch the door and lead\n \u00a0\u00a0Her timid footsteps home.\nHail, noble bridegroom, hail!\n \u00a0\u00a0Straight as a tender tree;\n Fond as a folding vine\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy bride will cling to thee.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Epithalamium","type":"page"}