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V. Catullus Said in Part:

(Being a shy at the Fifty-first Ode.)

Whose seat is opposite to thine,
My Lesbia, seems to me divine;
For it were heaven to be so near thee,
To gaze upon thee and to hear thee.

But, lowlife lyrist that I am,
I see thee, and am like a clam;
My tongue is mute; my heart’s a lead one;
Sight, hearing fail me—I’m a dead one!