Vana Kreeka muusika
Lisa 1
Immortal Aphrodite, beautiful-throned, wiles-weaving child of Zeus, I beg you, Queen,
do not torment my heart with sorrow and pain but come and help me again as you did
before when having heard my pleadings from far away you left your father's golden
palace and yoked to your shining chariot swift, lovely sparrows that brought you over
the dark earth, moving their thick-feathered wings through the sky's bright ether.
Quickly they arrived; and then you, Goddess, with a smile on your unaging face you
asked me what is wrong with me this time and why I am calling you again and what my
wild heart wishes again. "Again whom must I persuade into the harness of your love?
Who isn't treating you well, Sappho? For if now runs away from you, soon will pursue
you, if not accepting gifts from you, soon will offer, if not in love with you, soon will
love even if you no more care." Come to me now again, release me from this pain,