{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob006.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob006.htm","text":"My mother bathes me in the dark, she dresses me in the sunlight and coifs me in the soft glow of the lamp; but if I go out in the moonlight she ties my girdle and makes a double knot.\nShe tells me: \"Play with the virgins, dance with the little children; do not look out of the window; fly the conversation of young men and fear the widow's counsel.\n\"Some evening, someone, as has always been, will come to lead you over the threshold in the midst of a great cort\u00e8ge of sounding drums and amorous flutes.\n\"That evening, when you go out, Bilitis, you will leave me three gourds of gall: one for the morning, one for the afternoon, and the third, the bitterest, for the festival days.\"","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: I. Bucolics In Pamphylia: Maternal Counsel","type":"page"}