All you Loves and Cupids cry <br />and all you men of feeling <br />my girl’s sparrow is dead, <br />my girl’s beloved sparrow. <br />She loved him more than herself. <br />He was sweeter than honey, and he <br />knew her, as she knows her mother. <br />He never flew out of her lap, <br />but, hopping about here and there, <br />just chirped to his lady, alone. <br />Now he is flying the dark <br />no one ever returns from. <br />Evil to you, evil Shades <br />of Orcus, destroyers of beauty. <br />You have stolen the beautiful sparrow from me. <br />Oh sad day! Oh poor little sparrow! <br />Because of you my sweet girl’s eyes <br />are red with weeping, and swollen.<br /><br />Gaius Valerius Catullus<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lesbia-s-sparrow/
