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You are a Muslim, I am a Jew, Some say that this, Pairing simply, Won’t do, That we, all the children, Of Abraham’s lot, Can fight, can, Kill but peace is for, Naught.

But as we stand, Hand-in-hand, I look into your, Eyes and see, a, Passion burns for, Brotherhood, for, Peace far beyond, Just River and Sea.

But a global love, A global care, for, One another, that, We shall share, You’ll have my, Back, and I’ll have, Yours, through, Hatred, violence, Guns and wars.

We’ll make it out, We’ll make amends, We’ll see our worlds, Through a great new, Lens, beyond all, Hate, beyond all, Wounds, you love, Me and I love you, For we are siblings, Muslim and Jew, And, hell, why not, The Christian, too?

Sapphic art I found while looking at classical paintings to copy.

"Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene" by Simeon Solomon

It's a crime that I can't find classical art where Sappho gets to share a kiss with a woman.

An illustration by Georges Rochegrosse

"The Kiss" by Peter Behrens

"Two Fairies Embracing in a Landscape with a Swan" by Hans Zatzka

Can't get over one of them trailing a flower over the other's body.

"Two Women in a Bed Disturbed by a Cat" by Jean-Alphonse Roehn

Cats have such inconvenient timing.

Stretching what's allowed, "Boarding School Friends" by Paul Gavarni

"Falbalas And Fanfreluches" by George Barbier

The kiss, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

It's ambiguous but it's in the Wikipedia category for women kissing women in art. And by the same artist: the girlfriends, and abandonment.

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Antonio Balestra

Pompeo Batoni

Another by Pompeo Batoni

Laurent de La Hyre

Antonio Domenico Beverensi

Pietro Liberi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

"Amarillis crowning Mirtillo" by Jacob van Loo

"The Kiss" by Eliseu Visconti

And paintings I didn't see on any sapphic list but feel sapphic to me:

"Visit to the studio" by Émile Friant

An artist and her muse (notice how the skirt and shirt seem to be the same as in the painting.)

"Two Girls Singing" by Giovanni Costa

"Two Young Girls" by Giovanni Costa

"An Afternoon Idyll" by Auguste Toulmouche

"Evening Silence" by Wilhelm Kotarbinski

"Evening" by Wilhelm Kotarbinski

"The New Bracelet" by Henryk Siemiradzki

"Meeting in the Square" by Eugene de Blaas too

"A Thorn Amidst the Roses" by James Sant

"The Conversation" by Francesco Didioni

"Daydreams" by Auguste Toulmouche

... And I think this is it. For now.