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. 147.

V. FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO

147

LXIXQuoted by Chrysippus. It is probably out of the same ode as the preceding.

No one maiden I think shall at any time see the sunlight that shall be as wise as thou.

Methinks no maiden ever
Will live beneath the sun
Who is as wise as thou art, —
Not e’en till Time is done.

V. FRAGMENTS FROM SAPPHO

LXIXQuoted by Chrysippus. It is probably out of the same ode as the preceding.

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