The Poems and Fragments of Catullus / Translated in the Metres of the Original

by Gaius Valerius Catullus

These little rites, a stone, a verse, receive,
'Tis all a father, all a friend can give.

Pope, Epitaph on the children of Lord Digby.

LXIX. 4.

Clarity

clearness, transparency.

Here clarity of candour, history's soul,
The critical mind in short.

Browning, Ring and Book, i. 925.

LXX.

Sir Philip Sidney thus translates this poem:—