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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
Your signature is great, too.
Sappho:
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Wealth without virtue is a dangerous guest;
Who holds them mingled is supremely blest.
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Thanks for the signature props. Callimachus was unbelievably talented, but almost impossible to read.
Sappho is always good for some nice imagery. It's probably the greatest tragedy of the ancient world that no intact poem of hers has survived.
My favorite Sappho fragment:
"The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is the middle of the night, time passes.
I, alone, lie down to sleep."