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Love Is All
By Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84c. 54 B.C.)
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Live our life, and love our fill;
Heeding not a jot, howe’er
Churlish dotards chide or stare!
Suns go down, but ’tis to rise
Brighter in the morning skies;
But when sets our little light,
We must sleep in endless night.
A thousand kisses grant me, sweet:
With a hundred these complete;
Lip me a thousand more, and then
Another hundred give again.
A thousand add to these, anon
A hundred more, then hurry one
Kiss after kiss without cessation,
Until we lose all calculation;
So envy shall not mar our blisses
By numbering up our tale of kisses.