Tom Payne's verse translation of the recently discovered Sappho fragment

[Brothers poem]

Still, you keep on twittering that Charaxos
comes, his boat full. That kind of thing I reckon
Zeus and his fellow gods know; and you mustn’t
make the assumption;

rather, command me, let me be an envoy
praying intensely to the throne of Hera
who could lead him, he and his boat arriving
here, my Charaxos,

finding me safely; let us then divert all
other concerns on to the lesser spirits;
after all, after hurricanes the clear skies
rapidly follow;

and the ones whose fate the Olympian ruler
wants to transform from troubles into better –
they are much blessed, they go about rejoicing
in their good fortune.

As for me, if Larichos reaches manhood,
[if he could manage to be rich and leisured,]
he would give me, so heavy-hearted, such a
swift liberation.

[Greek original]

ἀλλ’ ἄϊ θρύλησθα Χάραξον ἔλθην

νᾶϊ σὺμ πλέαι· τὰ μέν̣, οἴο̣μα̣ι, Ζεῦς
οἶδε σύμπαντές τε θέοι· σὲ δ᾽οὐ χρῆ
ταῦτα νόεισθαι,

ἀλλὰ καὶ πέμπην ἔμε καὶ κέλ⟦η⟧εσθαι
πόλλα λίσσεσθαι̣ βασί̣λ̣η̣αν Ἤρ̣αν
ἐξίκεσθαι τυίδε σάαν ἄγοντα
νᾶα Χάραξον,

κἄμμ’ ἐπεύρην ἀρτέ̣ μ̣ εας· τὰ δ’ ἄλλα
πάντα δαιμόνεσσι̣ν ἐπι̣τ̣ρόπωμεν·
εὐδίαι̣ γὰ̣ρ̣ ἐκ μεγάλαν ἀήτα̣ν̣
αἶψα πέλ̣̣ο̣νται·

τῶν κε βόλληται βασίλευς Ὀλύμπω
δαίμον’ ἐκ πόνων ἐπάρ{η}ωγον ἤδη
περτρόπην, κῆνοι μ̣άκαρες πέλονται
καὶ πολύολβοι.

κἄμμες, αἴ κε τὰν κεφάλαν ἀέρρῃ
Λάριχος καὶ δήποτ᾽ἄνηρ γένηται,
καὶ μάλ’ἐκ πόλλ⟦η⟧`αν ́ βαρ̣υθύμ̣ιάν̣ κεν
αἶψα λύθειμεν.