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Sappho - To A Youth Who Wooed A Woman Older Than HimselfSappho - To A Youth Who Wooed A Woman Older Than Himself
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Friend, woo me not so earnestly. Vain is thy prayer. Nay, if in truth thou lovest me. Hereafter spare My wearied ears a suit denied. Go, choose for thee a younger bride. Not I will brook to live with thee. An old wife to a young man tied, Doomed as the years fleet by to see A spouse who gazes hungry-eyed On such as she can never be. The young and fair. And waits to enshroud her clay with glee, And graveward bear.
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