I longed for you. You came.
You cooled my heart.
Your words were hands
which cupped its flame.
Sappho, Fragment 48
ἦλθες, ἔγω δέ σ᾿ ἐμαιόμαν,
ὂν δ᾿ ἔψυξας ἔμαν φρένα καιομέναν πόθῳ.
‘“Then shall the sun be turned to darkness and the moon to blood…”’
I know about eclipses from an elder of the church.
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I longed for you. You came.
You cooled my heart.
Your words were hands
which cupped its flame.
ἦλθες, ἔγω δέ σ᾿ ἐμαιόμαν,
ὂν δ᾿ ἔψυξας ἔμαν φρένα καιομέναν πόθῳ.
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