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APPENDIX
METRICAL VERSIONS AND PARAPHRASES
Page 35
(Catullus, 61. 216-220)
- A little Torquatus I fain would see
- Dancing on his mother’s knee;
- To father eager hands stretched out,
- All smiles around his dimpling mouth!
Page 36
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- By Babylon’s streams we sat us down
- And shed a bitter tear,
- Thinking of Zion razed to earth
- And exiles’ portion drear.
- When lo, the victor, swollen with pride
- In mockery cries aloud:
- “Come sing, ye dolts, a lively strain
- Of Zion and your God.”
- “We mourning exiles sing to God
- In this benighted land?
- O Zion, be thy wrongs avenged,
- As here we steadfast stand!”
