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The mixture of really warm weather and a visit from my mother-in-law and her partner was not conducive to time spent in front of the computer, and now I don't think I'll ever catch up on my FL.

I keep thinking of things to post and then forgetting them, as well. Very bad.

( well, here's the usual Monday Alias commentary )

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It's still National Poetry month. There's been some Sappho over at breathe_poetry, so I thought I'd expand the number of lyric poets.

This is probably the opening of Stesichorus' "Palinode." Stesichorus was a 7th-6th century BCE Greek poet from Southern Italy and Sicily; the story is that he wrote a poem about the Trojan War and was blinded by Helen (a goddess, at least in Sparta) for slandering her. He wrote this, and she cured him.

It is not true, this story.
You did not embark on the well-oared ships.
You did not arrive at the citadel of Troy.

If those aren't the first lines then these are:

Song-loving goddess, golden-winged maiden,
Come here again...