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The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
Across the still sea's moonlit wave
Selene came
Softly to seek the Latmian cave,
Her breast aflame
With secret passion's ruthless throe,
Her scruples done,
And burning with desire to know
Endymion.