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The Bibelot

VOLUME I

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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number V, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; p. 156.

V.  FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO




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CIXFrom Demetrius, who quotes the fragment to show the grace of Sappho’s style and the beauty of repetition.













A.   Maidenhood, maidenhood, whither art
            thou gone away from me?

B.   Never again will I come to thee, never
            again.





“Sweet Rose of May, sweet Rose of May,
Whither, ah whither fled away?”
“What’s gone no time can e’er restore —
I come no more, I come no more.”

J. H. MERIVALE.



















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