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SAPHO<br />
« Par un soir brûlant <strong>de</strong> rubis et d'opales<br />
Elle te dira <strong>de</strong>s mots las et brisés,<br />
Et tu connaîtras ses lèvres nuptiales,<br />
Pâles <strong>de</strong> baisers. »<br />
Saw the white implacable Aphrodite,<br />
Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled<br />
Shine as fire of sunset on western waters;<br />
Saw the reluctant<br />
Feet, the stra!ning plumes of the doves that drew her,<br />
Looking always, looking with necks reverted,<br />
Back to Lesbos, back to the hills whereun<strong>de</strong>r<br />
Shone Mitylene;<br />
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