
The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
Maidens, that pass my tomb with laughter sweet,
 A voice unresting echoes at your feet;
 Pause, and if any would my story seek,
 Dumb as I am, these graven words will speak;
 Once in the vanished years it chanced to please
 Arista, daughter of Hermocleides,
 To dedicate my life in virgin bliss
 To thee, revered of women, Artemis!
 O Goddess, deign to bless my grandsire's line,
 For Saon was a temple priest of thine;
 And grant, O Queen, in thy benefic grace,
 Unending fame and fortune to his race.