Was it Hesper or Phosphor?

[Lemuel Underwing]

silly me I forgot my ος, so 'tis Phosphorus

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> A wonderful passage from M&D upon the general Poetic Confusion on the
> subject,
>  p96:
> *"Somebody somewhere in the World, watching the Planet go dark agains the
> Sun, - dark, mad, mortal, the Goddess in quite another Aspect indeed, -
> cannot help blurting, exactly at The Moment, from Sappho's fragment 95,
> seeming to wreck thereby the Ob, -
> "O Hesperus, - you bring back all that bright day scatter'd, - you bring
> in the sheep, and the goat, - you bring the Child back to her mother."
> "Thank you for sharing that with us... recalling that this is Sun-Rise,
> Dear, -Rise, not sun-**Set."
>
>
> *
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