{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos24.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos24.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nDeath is an evil; so the Gods decree,\n So they have judged, and such must rightly be\n Our mortal view; for they who dwell on high\n Had never lived, had it been good to die.\nAnd so the poet's house should never know\n Of tears and lamentations any show;\n Such things befit not us who deathless sing\n Of love and beauty, gladness and the spring.\nNo hint of grief should mar the features of\n Our dreams of endless beauty, lasting love;\n For they reflect the joy inviolate,\n Eternal calm that fronts whatever fate.\nCl\u00ebis, my darling, grieve no more, I pray!\n Let wandering winds thy sorrow bear away,\n And all our care; my daughter, let thy smile\n Shine through thy tears and gladden me the while.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epithalamia: Threnodes: Death","type":"page"}