If you really love me,
choose a younger wife;
for I, being older,
could not bear to live
[with a younger man…]
- Sappho, c.600BC.
(Translation: Josephine Balmer, buy her book published by Bloodaxe).
If you really love me,
choose a younger wife;
for I, being older,
could not bear to live
[with a younger man…]