Andrew Scott - Words and Music(2013) 4/5 "Please tell me - that's if you don't mind" by Catullus | Текст песни

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• Words and Music(2013) 4/5 "Please tell me - that's if you don't mind" by Catullus

"Please tell me - that's if you don't mind..."
By Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus)
translated by James Michie

Please tell me - that's if you don't mind
Me asking - how am I to find
The holes and corners where you hide?
I searched the Lesser Campus, tried
The Circus Maximus and shrine
Of Jupiter on the Capitoline,
Combed all the bookshops, then waylaid
The girls in Pompey's colonnade,
Begging for you, but met wide-eyed,
Innocent looks on every side.
Desperate, I asked, "What have you done,
You bad girls, with Camerius?" One,
Teasing me, flaunted a bare breast:
"Here he is, in this rosy nest!"
You keep such a stand-offish distance
That one needs Hercules' persistence
To track you down these days, my friend.
Divulge, disclose where you intend
To be in future; come, commit
Yourself, be reckless, out with it!
Is it that you've spent all day sleeping
Snug in those creamy girls' safe-keeping?
If lips and tongue stay locked and chained,
You waste the whole crop love has gained:
Venus likes speech to be loose-reined.
By all means be discreet - providing
That I'm the one you confide in.