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Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

by Bliss Carman

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XLII

O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what enchantment allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?

And when the rose-petals are scattered
At dead of still noon on the grass-plot,
What means this passionate grief,—
This infinite ache of regret?

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