read-it-in-a-book: Sappho - Poem 48,  as translated in Karen Blixen’s ‘Out of Afric

read-it-in-a-book:

Sappho - Poem 48,  as translated in Karen Blixen’s ‘Out of Africa' 

The moon has sunk and the Pleiades,
And midnight is gone,
And the hours are passing, passing,
And I lie alone.