To: Melian
Just to show that everything goes around and comes back, Sappho anticipated this lovely image in her poem to the Evening Star:
Evening Star who gathers everything
shining dawn scattered -
you bring the sheep and the goats,
you bring the child back to its mother.
88 posted on
10/11/2009 7:22:03 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
I wonder if Tolkein knew this poem.
101 posted on
10/12/2009 6:58:20 AM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: AnAmericanMother
That’s very beautiful. I especially love the sheep and the goats being brought back together.
114 posted on
10/12/2009 5:35:57 PM PDT by
Melian
("frequently in error, rarely in doubt")
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