here you say Charaxos nears

his ship is coming in God

knows and all Olympos you

have no right to speak

I shall go just bid me

say my prayers to the Goddess

so Charaxos come

and his ship

and we greet him the rest

is for the gods

for calm is always after

big storms

whoever Olympian God turns

away from trouble

they are blest

no reckoning of it

and we if Larichos grow up

and play the man

why that were rank despair

escaped from

Sappho, after a scholar’s English