Dispatches for the Colonial Office: Sappho

Friday, September 4, 2026

Lawrence Hall

Fragments of Sappho

“Someone will remember us…even in another time”

-attributed to Sappho, many sources and variants

I have but one small volume of Sappho

Which I can’t find just now

I wanted to look up something

Perhaps I should instead look for you

Two problems:

Little of Sappho’s work remains

And even that has disappeared

Two joys:

But I found a Tolkien I had lost

And you and I found each other

Two fragments:

Verse floating among our hopes

And happiness upon our pillow

Dispatches for the Colonial Office