Was it Hesper or Phosphor?

[Madeleine Maudlin]

What are you talking about?


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> silly me I forgot my ος, so 'tis Phosphorus
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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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>> *
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