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"_Plus quam se atque suos amavit omnes, / Nunc_."
CATULLUS.
You were my playmate by the sea.
We swam together.
Your girl's body had no breasts.
We found prawns among the rocks; / We liked to feel the sun and to do nothing; / In the evening we played games with the others.
It made me glad to be by you.
Sometimes I kissed you, / And you were always glad to kiss me; / But I was afraid -- I was only fourteen.
And I had quite forgotten you, / You and your name.
To-day I pass through the streets.
She who touches my arm and talks with me / Is -- who knows? -- Helen of Sparta, / Dryope, Laodamia.
And there are you / A whore in Oxford Street.