FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO.

The stars that 'round the beauteous moon

Attendant wait, cast into shade

Their ineffectual luster soon

As she in full-orb’d majesty array’d

Her silver radiance showers

Upon this world of ours.

_Translation of_ J. H. MERIVALE.

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