{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos76.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos76.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos76.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nMaidens, that pass my tomb with laughter sweet,\n A voice unresting echoes at your feet;\n Pause, and if any would my story seek,\n Dumb as I am, these graven words will speak;\n Once in the vanished years it chanced to please\n Arista, daughter of Hermocleides,\n To dedicate my life in virgin bliss\n To thee, revered of women, Artemis!\n O Goddess, deign to bless my grandsire's line,\n For Saon was a temple priest of thine;\n And grant, O Queen, in thy benefic grace,\n Unending fame and fortune to his race.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Epigrams: The Priestess of Artemis","type":"page"}