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Lesbia live with me, Lesbia love with me,
Share every joy under heavens above with me.
We know the moans of the ultra-respectable
Aren’t worth a penny – it’s life that’s delectable.
The sun that is setting this evening will rise again
In the bright morning to gladden our eyes again;
But when life is done with — then what are we getting?
One dark and perpetual sleep of forgetting.
While we can, let’s express all the passion that’s brewed in us
With kisses, excited, inspired, multitudinous.
Give me kisses! A hundred, a thousand, then more again,
Then thousands more in a thrilling encore again,
Till the goggling prudes are reduced to docility,
Stunned and amazed by sheer uncountability.


Twenty translations from the liveliest of Roman poets, several of which have been published in Snakeskin.

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