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 * Bird-throated child of Lesbos, let us turn
 * To those dark hills of home and Long Ago
 * That one great love relumes, and one lost voice
 * Still like a fading lute with sorrow haunts.


 * Dear hills of sun and gloom and green—soft hills
 * Ambrosial I shall see no more!


 * Nay, come,
 * O Violet-Crowned, come back where still the girls
 * Laugh ruddy-ankled round the Lesbian vats
 * And swart throats from the laden galleys sing
 * At eve of love and women as of old—


 * How far away those twilight voices are!


 * And down the solemn Dorian scale the pipes
 * Wander and plead, then note by note awake
 * Shrill with Aeolian gladness once again.
 * Come back where opiate lyres shall drowse away
 * This wordless hunger that has paled your face,
 * Where island hills reach out their arms for you;
 * Come back, and be at rest!

(turning to him)
 * O island home
 * Where we were happy once!


 * And shall again