This only I remember, that I said:
‘O Sappho! ere I leave this paradise,
Sing me one song of those lost books of yours
For which we poets still go sorrowing;
That when I meet my fellows on the earth
I may rejoice them more than many pearls;’
And she, the sweetly-smiling, answered me,
As one who dreams: ‘I have forgotten them!’
We have referred above to Gamaliel Bradford’s use of Sappho’s apple on the topmost bough; and Maurice Thompson, the author of Alice of Old Vincennes and the Sapphic Secret, published as his last song, Sappho’s Apple in The Independent, Feb. 21, 1901:
SAPPHO’S APPLE