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A gigantic sea-rock assumes the face of a crying woman when the fog comes: some say she cries for our dead in the wars, some say it’s for those lost at sea: I have often seen her, head bowed: she faces the town, staring: the sea sound is her weeping; perhaps it is the weeping of many women: if I walk by that deserted spot at night, with the fog about me, I cling to Atthis or Exekias. No woman goes alone there, when the fog is about.

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The moon has set and

The Pleiades have gone;

The night is half gone

And life speeds by.

I lie in bed, alone.

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Going to see Alcaeus, I met Kleis and she threw her arms around me and kissed me, saying: