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Sappho
Dying Sappho to Gongyla
I said, "It will be soon". Gongyla said:
"How can you tell? Have you received a sign?"
"Aye," I replied, "Hermes stood by my bed;
I turned and spoke to him: "O Lord divine,
it is the end. I take no more delight
in all that pleased me best beneath the sky.
A longing now pursues me day and night,
an eagerness to close my eyes and die.
'But, Lord, I beg of you to set me down
in those same dewy fields where, by your power,
you guided Agamemnon and the flower
of the Achaeans in their past renown.'"
(from "Sweet -voiced Sappho. Poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek Authors translated into English Verse by Theodore Stephanides", 2015)
Dying Sappho to Gongyla
I said, "It will be soon". Gongyla said:
"How can you tell? Have you received a sign?"
"Aye," I replied, "Hermes stood by my bed;
I turned and spoke to him: "O Lord divine,
it is the end. I take no more delight
in all that pleased me best beneath the sky.
A longing now pursues me day and night,
an eagerness to close my eyes and die.
'But, Lord, I beg of you to set me down
in those same dewy fields where, by your power,
you guided Agamemnon and the flower
of the Achaeans in their past renown.'"
(from "Sweet -voiced Sappho. Poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek Authors translated into English Verse by Theodore Stephanides", 2015)