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The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
Deftly on my little
Seven-stringed barbitos,
Now to please my girl friends
Songs I set to music.
Maidens fair, companions
Of the Muses, never
Toward you shall my feelings
Undergo a change.
Chanted in a plaintive
Old Ionic measure,
All the songs I give you
Are the songs of love.