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SAPPHO AND PHAON: 26. CONTEMNS PHILOSOPHY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where antique woods o'erhang the mountain's crest
Last Line: Nor vaunt the balm, to heal a lover's wound.


Where antique woods o'erhang the mountain's crest,
And mid-day glooms in solemn silence lour;
Philosophy, go seek a lonely bower,
And waste life's fervid noon in fancied rest.
Go, where the bird of sorrow weaves her nest,
Cooing, in sadness sweet, through night's dim hour;
Go, cull the dewdrops from each potent flower
That med'cines to the cold and reasoning breast!
Go, where the brook in liquid lapse steals by,
Scarce heard amidst the mingling echoes round,
What time, the noon fades slowly down the sky,
And slumbering zephyrs moan, in caverns bound:
Be these thy pleasures, dull Philosophy!
Nor vaunt the balm, to heal a lover's wound.





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