[Gutenberg 60906] • Sappho

Excerpt from Sappho

It is twenty-five centuries ago since this island was the home of Sappho, of Alcaeus, and of a whole school of the most finished lyric poetry and music ever heard in Greece. From its northern shore, across only seven miles of laughing sea, the poetess might every day look upon the. Troad.

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