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Daily(ish) poem → 00313 ◊ from The Poems of Sappho ◊ Sappho
At the end of the bough–its uttermost end,
Missed by the harvesters, ripens the apple,
Nay, not overlooked, but far out of their reach,
So with all best things.
—Sappho (c630-c570 BC; translated by Edwin Marion Cox)
—from The Poems of Sappho (1925)
[Note: the “sweetapple” referred to in the transliterated version of this fragment was likely the result of grafting an apple and a quince]