"Thou, Hesper, bringest homeward all That radiant dawn sped far and wide: The sheep to fold, the goat to stall, The children to their mother’s side."
— Venus

January 1, 1970

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Sappho, fragment quoted in Demetrius, On Style 141 (L.P. 104a); translated by Rennell Rodd, Love, Worship and Death (London: E. Arnold, 1916), p. 5