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


p. 58

THE LOVE OF SELENE

Across the still sea's moonlit wave
       Selene came
Softly to seek the Latmian cave,
       Her breast aflame

With secret passion's ruthless throe,
       Her scruples done,
And burning with desire to know
       Endymion.


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