Leto And Niobe

Sappho

Before they were mothers
Leto and Niobe
had been the most
devoted of friends

                Sappho
                tr. Barnard

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• Sappho : Sleep, Darling
• Sappho : Sounds Of Grief
• Sappho : Standing By My Bed
• Sappho : Tell Everyone
• Sappho : The Muses
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