Fifty-one

 Equal to a God he seems to me,

Or, if it be not blasphemy, 

He surpasses all the Gods, too, 

For he gets to sit next to you. 


And listens to your sweet, sweet laughter, 

Which rips all the sense out of me 

For nothing is left thereafter, 

When I see you, I prattle mindlessly. 


But the tongue withers into blight, 

From my weak joints my rage drips down, 

My ears are jangled with her sound, 

As my eyes blacken in the night. 


Catull, leisure makes you rave and burn, 

Leisure, Catull, is your disease, 

Leisure has ruined kings in their turn, 

And has destroyed many blessèd cities.

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