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NIGHT by SAPPHO

First Line: THE MOON IS GONE
Last Line: ALONE I LIE.
Subject(s): APHRODITE; LOVE - EROTIC; LOVE; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; NIGHT; BEDTIME;

THE Moon is gone
And the Pleiads set,
Midnight is nigh;
Time passes on,
And passes, yet
Alone I lie.



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