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Theodore Stephanides
Setting Pleiades

The Pleiades that Sappho sang *
still glimmer in the sky,
and sometimes with the setting Moon
I watch them sink and die.

I wonder then if lovers gaze,
as once, upon their light
to augur if they, too, must yearn
alone all through the night.

(from "Sweet-voiced Sappho. Poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek Authors translated into English Verse by Theodore Stephanides", 2015)

* see Complaint

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