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A Small Book of Translations: 02 - Catullus 1
Author(s): Alexander Hutchison
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Lizzie, let's live and love
and count the vapourings of strict
old men with one cold coin.
Suns may sink and sally back:
when our brief light is by
night's a sleep that's sealed forever.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred –
another thousand, a hundred to follow –
still another thousand, and a hundred more.
And when we've wantoned all those thousands
wreck the tally, and never know –
lest any think our kisses ill
and grudge how many.
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