On A Pompeiian Bust Called "Sappho."
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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