Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 21, No. 2. March 27, 1958
It's all been done Before
It's all been done Before
- Darling je vous aime beaucoup,
- Je ne sais pas what to do. . . .
- Make we joy now in this fest
- In quo Christus natus est.
- A patre unigenitus.
- Sing we of him and say, "Welcome,
- Veni redemptor geniium."
- Down by the shores of sunny Italy
- In our little rendezvous,
- We kissed, and then
- We kissed and kissed again,
- Exactly like the Romans used to do . . .
"Let us live and love, and not care two pence for all the talk of our straightlaced elders. Suns, having set, may rise again, we, when once our brief light's set, must sleep one eternal night. Give me a thousand kisses, then yet another thousands, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred. Then, when we have had many thousands, we shall lose count of them, so as not to know their number—or some evil may frown upon us, knowing the number of our kisses."
Translation of Catullus by D.L.