Was it Hesper or Phosphor?

[Lemuel Underwing]

O dear me, must've been the Gin talking hoho...

Hesper, the evening star, and Phosphorus the morning star.

Phosphorus is connect'd to Lucifer via a passage in the Greek ver. of
Isaiah,
he is worshiping Lucifer as Hesperus, the father...?

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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