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The

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No. 4

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NEW POEM OF SAPPHO.

Manuscript Discovered in Egypt,

The directers of the Egypt Explora tion Fund, Dr. B. 1. renfell wid Mr. A. S. Hunt, base Based a new pe by Supphrí sa Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt.

While the restoration of the damngel text is in placen qaite easy, "there are | several pasesgos where the words supplied; are purviy mjestura, perlcularly in the lut staozs. The porn in unluckily met quite complete.

Mr. Edmonds. A l'ambridge.. tran

antiquity, whose

The firest thing u. th world, suo say is a host of horsemen, and some a host of foot, and some again a nary of ships, but to me 'tis the heart's balovel. And is easy to make this understood by any. When Helen, str rayed tatch mortal beauty she obose free bent the destroyer of all the honour of Troy, and thought hot so much; either of child parent done, but was led astray by Low to bestow ber heart afar for weman is ever to be hat when she thinks Eghtly of what is near and dear. Eren'so you today, my Annetoria, remember not, ið somma, when she is with you, one of whom I would rather the awek sound at hei footbuli and the sight of the bright ma of her boaming face than all the cháriots and armoured footmen ¤ Lydia 1 (know that in this world man

nnot have the best; yet tá pray

for share in what was once shared hetter than to forget it. Perhaps no writer works have one down to us so frag nwentarily, is so well known to us, at uty rate by name, Suppbo, the winth-century portass 11 Lambie, Vinil Fecently she was represided by only two short but exquisite ol, together with)

lew fragmente which had been pre- agreed by other writers) but these pieces, one of which is also known in its Latin

· ̈version by Catullus, were perhaps enough To justify in moder eyes the poetes's great reputation in the nariena - world. Sifice, however, Egypt, the classical hunting ground for inst texts, began during the present generation to reveal.. itu terasuron, a good many fresh fragments of Sappho have been morered, and her fame, as well as that of ber contem perurios, now rests on, a firmer basis. 1: would be unnecessary to quote the takay Mibutos which English poots have pukk to burning. Sappho "; but one may props rocall the lines of Mr. Brown- fix, for they have a biographical signi- franco-

Supple, will that auriclo

Of ebon hair an aimed brows.

✪ poet woman! none forgoes **5

The leap, attaining the repor The leap, of course, is an allusion to the legendary fest of her leaping, after hết vala puerto Prion, who diedu. ed her, into the sea off the Lexicadian promontory but the story does not tell tnt whether sho dod of the adventure or not. But whatever legend, has to re- into of her, it is certain that at Leshor she was at the head of a great school, of writers in the heyday of Acclio poetry, and her reputation at the poetess !! rivalled that of Home as the poet." Of her contemporaries we have, unfor- timately, even fewer fragments, them of her own poems; but in this that Egyp kian, discovery" some fresh pieces: bare also come to light of Alcaeus, who ad- drowed her, we knew siteady, insan cdn and was scared by

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