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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Heart-Break
By Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.)
Translation of William Cranston Lawton
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O Cornificius, and most wearily;
Still worse with all the days and hours that pass.
And with what greeting do you comfort me?
The least of boons, and easiest to bestow;
Wroth am I, that my love is answered so.
A word of greeting, pray you; what you please;
More sad than tear-drops of Simonides!