Four Translations and Adaptations from Catullus: I

Four Translations and Adaptations from Catullus: I written by James Elroy Flecker

Collected Poems (1916)

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For whom this pretty pamphlet, polished new
With pumice-stone? Cornelius, for you:
For you were never unprepared to deem
My simple verses worthy of esteem,
Though you yourself — who else in Rome so bold? —
In volumes three have laboured to unfold
A "Universal History of Man" —

Dear Jove ! A learned and laborious plan!
Wherefore to you, my friend, I dedicate
This so indifferent bookling; yet I pray,
Poor as it is — goddess of my fate,
Let it outlive the writer's transient day!

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