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Sept/Oct 2020 • Vol. XLII No. 5 • All of This Is True |

Fragment 107

“Do I long for my virginity?” Sappho asks from the fragments,
From the sun-bright blades and horns of dawn clattering on the floor,

From inside a tomb, her office now the old heaven of pleasure
Where a god that had been ignored can be called down

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