O my Lesbia, let us live for loving.Sri Aurobindo
Translations
CWSA.- Volume 5
Part Five. Translations from Latin
Catullus
O my Lesbia, let us live for loving.
Suns can set and return to light the morrow,
We, when once has sunk down the light of living,–
One long night we must sleep, and sleep for ever.
Give me kisses a thousand and then a hundred,
One more thousand again, again a hundred,
Many thousands of kisses give and hundreds,
Kisses numberless like to sands on sea-shores,
Burning Libya’s sands in far Cyrene.
Close confound the thousands and mix the hundreds
Lest some envious Fate or eye discover
The long reckoning of our love and kisses.