Note 46 — THE NINETEENTH PAPYRUS

I have managed (not without complacency) to render this exquisite (and perfectly pagan) ditty both literally and in its original hendecasyllabic or ithyphallic measure—a somewhat difficult task, and (perhaps) an audacious, in the light of Lord Tennyson’s deplorable attempt “all composed in a metre of Catullus.” A. H.