{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos21.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos21.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nPale death shall come, and thou and thine shall be,\n Then and thereafter, to all memory\n Forgotten as the wind that yesterday\n Blew the last lingering apple buds away;\nFor thou hadst never that undying rose\n To grace the brow and shed immortal glows;\n Pieria's fadeless flower that few may claim\n To wreathe and save thy unremembered name.\nAy! even on the fields of Dis unknown,\n Obscure among the shadows and alone,\n Thy flitting shade shall pass uncomforted\n Of any heed from all the flitting dead.\nBut no one maid, I think, beneath the skies,\n At any time shall live and be as wise,\n In sooth, as I am; for the Muses Nine\n Have made me honored and their gifts are mine;\nAnd men, I think, will never quite forget\n My songs or me; so long as stars shall set\n Or sun shall rise, or hearts feel love's desire,\n My voice shall cross their dreams, a sigh of fire.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Pieria's Rose","type":"page"}