CHRYSOTHEMIS

I am the queen of Samothrace.

God, making roses, made my face

As a rose filled up full with red.

My prows made sharp the straitened seas

From Pontus to that Chersonese

Whereon the ebbed Asian stream is shed.

My hair was as sweet scent that drips;

Love's breath begun about my lips

Kindled the lips of people dead.

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