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The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com


p. 10

SUMMER

Slumber streams from quivering leaves that listless
Bask in heat and stillness of Lesbian summer;
Breathless swoons the air with the apple-blossoms’
                Delicate odor;

From the shade of branches that droop and cover
Shallow trenches winding about the orchard,
Restful comes, and cool to the sense, the flowing
                Murmur of water.


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