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


p. 56

LEDA

Once on a time
  They say that Leda found
Beneath the thyme
  An egg upon the ground;

And yet the swan
  She fondled long ago
Was whiter than
  Its shell of peeping snow.


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