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Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

by Bliss Carman

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XXII

Once you lay upon my bosom,
While the long blue-silver moonlight
Walked the plain, with that pure passion
  All your own.

Now the moon is gone, the Pleiads
Gone, the dead of night is going;
Slips the hour, and on my bed
  I lie alone.

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