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ECHOES FROM EAST AND WEST.
Come now to me, and loosen me from cruel
Tangle of care, and, whatso to accomplish
My spirit seeks, accomplish; and thyself be
A fellow-fighter.
Tangle of care, and, whatso to accomplish
My spirit seeks, accomplish; and thyself be
A fellow-fighter.
July, 1908.
[Note.—Nothing in literary history is so touching as the picture of "Sappho who broke off a fragment of her soul for us to guess at." The present poem is quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus as an example of the style which he calls "smooth and florid." I have not preserved the alternation of consonants and vowels, which is fine in Greek, but which is apt to be cloying in English.]
