...ept that it changes the second person to the third:-- Dying she reposes; Oblivion grasps her now; Since never Pierian roses Were wreathed round her empty brow; She goeth unwept and lonely To Hades ' dusky homes, And bodiless shadows only Bid her welcome as she comes. To show how differently Sappho lamented her favorites, I give Elton's version of another epitaph on a maiden, whom we m...