{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob059.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob059.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob059.htm","text":"I formerly was amorous of the beauty of young men, and the memory of their words, one time, would keep me long awake.\nI remember having carved a name in the bark of a sycamore. I remember having left a fragment of my gown upon the road where one was wont to pass.\nI remember having loved. . . Oh! Pannychis, my child, in what hands have I left you? How could I, unhappy one, have thus abandoned you?\nToday Mnasidika alone possesses me, and will forever have me. Let her receive as sacrifice the happiness of those whom I have left for her.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: II. Elegies At Mytilene: Metamorphosis","type":"page"}