C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Dedication for a Volume of Lyrics
By Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84c. 54 B.C.)
Translation of William Cranston Lawton
T
Just polished with the pumice, who
Shall now receive?—Cornelius, you!
You counted of some value, when
You only of Italian men
The story of all ages past,—
Learned, O Jupiter, and vast!
—And, gracious Virgin, this I pray:
That it shall live beyond our day!