Carmen Sapphicum Pro Sorore Maria

Illa quae mentem subit litteras me
instruxit Romae prius, laxa quamvis
esset ludo mox soror aspra moris

l s/ l l/ l s s/ l s/ ls or ll

I, ait, limen!

l s s/ l s or l. l

{that woman which steals into my mind taught me
the letters of rome first, tolerant although
she was for the school a sharp sister of custom.
Go, she says, to the hallway!}


-R

-- for my 6th grade latin teacher---