Sappho

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Some say cavalry and others claim infantry or a fleet of long oars is the supreme sight on the black earth. I say it is the one you love.

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Sappho. Supreme Sight on the Black Earth. c. 570 BCE.

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Sappho. The Complete Poems of Sappho, edited by Willis Barnstone. Shambhala Publications, 2009.

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Sappho. Sappho to the Moon. c. 570 BCE.

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Sappho. Quoted in The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams, edited by Peter Jay. Oxford University Press, 1973.

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