Note 35 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]
Reading edition
In the place of this couplet, there were four lines in the MS.:
If thou return thy Sappho too shall stay, Not all the gods shall force me then away; Nor Love, nor Phœbus, then invoked shall be, For thou alone art all the gods to me.
Another version ran thus:
Wouldst thou return, oh more than Phœbus, fair No god like thee could ease thy Sappho's care.