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Sapphics: Musagetes

The Poems of Sappho ยท 1 passage

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ye Hours and Graces, Dance around the team of swans that attend him Up Parnassian heights, to his holy temple High on the hill-top; Come, ye Muses, too, from the shades of Pindus, Let your songs, that echo on winds of rapture, Wake the lyre he tunes to the sweet inspiring Sound of your voices.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cla/pos/pos03.htm.

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