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Classical Love
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Postera phœba lustrabat lampade terras
Umentemque aurora polo dimoverat umbram
- Aeneid, Book IV, lines 6-7:
Come, love, young dawn's up through the black night's chaos
With golden arms and fingertips of rose,
Ροδοδακτύλος χρυσοπαχυς Ηως
Greek in its glory. Come, let us disclose
Our life. Our living, loving. You, all wild
With a thousand roses as your blonde hair's wreathe
And a sonrisa, sunrise in your smile,
Are dawn, so dawn on me, and deign to breathe
Your wind upon my lips and loll on me.
Love! Look! there to the brilliant east, the dawn's
Lips kiss and drink the οινοπα (wine-dark) sea
So let your sun drink of my lips this once,
And I'll forever have my fill of love,
And red we'll glow, red as the dawn above.
Postera phœba lustrabat lampade terras
Umentemque aurora polo dimoverat umbram
- Aeneid, Book IV, lines 6-7:
Come, love, young dawn's up through the black night's chaos
With golden arms and fingertips of rose,
Ροδοδακτύλος χρυσοπαχυς Ηως
Greek in its glory. Come, let us disclose
Our life. Our living, loving. You, all wild
With a thousand roses as your blonde hair's wreathe
And a sonrisa, sunrise in your smile,
Are dawn, so dawn on me, and deign to breathe
Your wind upon my lips and loll on me.
Love! Look! there to the brilliant east, the dawn's
Lips kiss and drink the οινοπα (wine-dark) sea
So let your sun drink of my lips this once,
And I'll forever have my fill of love,
And red we'll glow, red as the dawn above.
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Classical Love
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