TRUE OR FALSE
by: Caius Valerius Catullus
(87-57 B.C.)
 ONE could
ever say that she,
- Lesbia! was so loved by me.
- Never all the world around
- Faith so true as mind was found.
- If no longer it endures
- (Would it did!) the fault is yours.
- I can never think again
- Well of you: I try in vain.
- But . . . be false . . . do what you will--
- Lesbia! I must love you still.
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This English translation of Catullus'
"True or False" was composed by Walter Savage Landor
(1775-1864). |
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