Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
and let us value all the rumors of
very severe old men at only a penny.
Suns are able to set and return:
for us, when the brief light sets once and for all,
there is one perpetual night to sleep.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then yet another thousand, then a hundred.
Then, when we have counted many thousands,
we will throw them into confusion, lest we know the number,
or lest anyone bad be able to envy
if he knows how many are our kisses.
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vīvāmus mea Lesbia, atque amēmus,
rūmōrēsque senum sevēriōrum
omnēs ūnius aestimēmus assis!
sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt:
nōbīs cum semel occidit brevis lūx,
nox est perpetua ūna dormienda.
dā mī bāsia mīlle, deinde centum,
dein mīlle altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde ūsque altera mīlle, deinde centum.
dein, cum mīlia multa fēcerīmus,
conturbābimus illa, nē sciāmus,
aut nē quis malus invidēre possit,
cum tantum sciat esse bāsiōrum.
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