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FLOWERS FOR THE GRACES by SAPPHO

First Line: WEAVE GARLANDS, MAIDEN, FROM THE STRANDS
Last Line: BUT TURN ASIDE FROM THE UNGARLANDED.
Subject(s): APHRODITE; LOVE - EROTIC; FLOWERS; LOVE; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL;
WEAVE garlands, maiden, from the strands
Of dill, and with soft gentle hands
Set the delicious leafage round your head.
The Goddess and the happy Graces
Love to look on flower-crown'd faces,
But turn aside from the ungarlanded.



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