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To Evening

Ohesperus! Thou bringest all things home;
All that the garish day hath scattered wide;
The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold;
Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.

Poem by Sappho
Translated by William Hyde Appleton, 1893

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