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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

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Music, Tortoises, Shells
Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.