We Put The Urn Abord Ship

Sappho

We put the urn aboard ship 
with this inscription: 
 
This is the dust of little 
Timas who unmarried was led 
into Persephone's dark bedroom 
 
And she being far from home, girls 
her age took new-edged blades 
to cut, in mourning for her, 
these curls of their soft hair

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