Note 226 — CANTO THE THIRD.[169]
Reading edition
Εσπερε παντα φερεις Φερεις οινον—φερεις αιγα Φερεις ματερι παιδα.
Fragment of Sappho.
[Ϝέσπερε, πάντα φέρων, ὅσα φαίνολις ἐσκέδασ' αὔως· Φέρεις οἴν φέρεις αἶγα, Φέρεις ἄπυ ματέρι παῖδα.
Sappho, Memoir, Text, by Henry Thornton Wharton, 1895, p. 136.
"Evening, all things thou bringest Which dawn spread apart from each other; The lamb and the kid thou bringest, Thou bringest the boy to his mother."
J.A. Symonds.
Compare Tennyson's Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After—"Hesper, whom the poet call'd the Bringer home of all good things."]