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On A Pompeiian Bust Called "Sappho."

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Oh no, not this! This is a Roman face,     Superb, composed, with such a matron grace     As that of great Cornelia, never thee.     Young princess of an ancient poetry!     Nor do I wish thy beauty from its grave;     Rather, one bird across the purple wave,     Or the mere sight of that Aegean sea.     Shall tell thy mortal loveliness to me!     Or I will find some slender, broken plinth.     And mark it thine with wild blue hyacinth,     While some far fruit, upon triumphant bough.     Shall say how unattainable wert thou!

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