… [hurry now,] they are calling for us…
you have everything [we might need,] don’t you
dear mother, for the festival …†
to celebrate its splendour in the spring? This
brings joy to mortals whose life is short. May I
[sing my songs] for so long as [I might have breath]
[and you want] to hear …
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† festival: thought to be that of Hera, held on Lesbos. See ‘The New Fragments: Texts, Translations and Retranslations’.