[sappho's] Mika Poem by dimitrios galanis

Υour new friend minded her own best interests, Mika,
and pulled you near her side, but, although now out of this friendship
you went astray foolishly to Penthelideans,
I'm not going to leave you there putting aside my interest for you,
the well behaviouring girl, all the more the one singing
whichever melody so sweetly
that not even the best songstress of us
can sing, not even the mellifluous nightingales
in the dewy woods.