Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

  1. Then sleep from waking Atys fled fleeting with sudden flight,
  2. By Nymph Pasithae welcomed to palpitating breast.
  3. Thus when his frenzy raging rash was soothed to gentlest rest,
  4. Atys revolved deeds lately done, as thought from breast unfolding,
  5. And what he'd lost and what he was with lucid sprite beholding,
  6. To shallows led by surging soul again the way 'gan take.
  7. There casting glance of weeping eyes where vasty billows brake,
  8. Sad-voiced in pitifullest lay his native land bespake.
  9. "Country of me, Creatress mine, born to thee and bred,
  10. By hapless me abandoned as by thrall from lordling fled,
  11. When me to Ida's groves and glades these vaguing footsteps bore
  12. To tarry 'mid the snows and where lurk beasts in antres frore
  13. And seek the deeply hidden lairs where furious ferals meet!