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Bliss Carman · Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

Poem 63 of 100 · Book I

A beautiful child is mine,

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A beautiful child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
And above her I value
Not all the Lydian land,
Nor lovely Hellas.

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