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ODE LXXXV: AD LESBIAM
Hark thou, my Lesbia, there be none existent / Can truly say she hath been loved by me / As thou hast been. No faith is more consistent / Than that which V. Catullus gives to thee.
How reasonless the state of an emotion! / For wert thou faultless, perfect, and sublime, / I could not like thee; nor would my devotion / And love be less wert thou the Queen of Crime.