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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Poems of Sappho: Erotika: Dithyrambs: Spring

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Come, shell divine, be vocal now for me, As when the Hebrus river and the sea To Lesbos bore, on waves harmonious, The head and golden lyre of Orpheus. Calliope, queen of the tuneful throng, Descend and be the Muse of melic song; For through my frame life's tides renewing bring The glad vein-warming vigor of the spring. The skies that dome the earth with far blue fire Make the wide land one temple of desire;— Just now across my cheek I felt a God, In the enraptured breeze, pass…