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Tonight I've watched

by Sappho

Sappho

Tonight I've watched
the moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth
goes; I am
in bed alone




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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"

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