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INCERTITUDE<br />
I do not know if I shall mate myself with Glottis or with Kyse. As they are not<br />
much alike, one cannot soothe me for the other's loss, and greatly fear to make an<br />
evil choice.<br />
Each has one <strong>of</strong> my hands, and one <strong>of</strong> my breasts too. To which I wonder shall I<br />
give my mouth? to which my heart, and all one cannot share?<br />
For it is shameful to stay this way, all three within one house. They talk <strong>of</strong> such<br />
things here in Mytilene. Yesterday before the temple <strong>of</strong> Ares a passing woman<br />
did not say "Good-day"<br />
'Tis Glottis I prefer; but I cannot disown Kyse. What would become <strong>of</strong> her all by<br />
herself? Or shall I leave them together as I found them, and take another lover<br />
for myself?<br />
MEETING<br />
I found her as a treasure, in a field, under a myrtle bush; she was wrapped from<br />
throat to feet in a yellow peplos broidered fine with blue.<br />
"I have no lover," she told me, "for the nearest town is forty stadia 73 from here. I<br />
live alone but for my mother, who is a widow and is always sad. If you should<br />
wish me I would follow you.<br />
"I'll follow to your house, though it should be upon the other sea-coast <strong>of</strong> the isle;<br />
and I'll live with you until you send me hence. Your hand is tender and your eyes<br />
are blue.<br />
"Let us go. I'll carry nothing with me but the little nude Astarte which is hanging<br />
from my necklace. We'll place it close to yours, and reward them with red roses<br />
every night."<br />
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