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FOREVER DEAD by SAPPHO

First Line: DEATH SHALL BE DEATH FOREVER UNTO THEE
Last Line: AMONG THE SHADOWY, AVERTED DEAD.
Subject(s): APHRODITE; LOVE - EROTIC; LOVE; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL;

DEATH shall be death forever unto thee,
Lady, with no remembrance of thy name
Then or thereafter; for thou gatherest not
The roses of Pieria, loving gold
Above the Muses. Even in Hades' House
Wander thou shalt unmarked, flitting forlorn
Among the shadowy, averted dead.



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