Quatro Meditações Clássicas sobre Quatro Poemas de W.H. Auden - IV

If you see a fair form, chase it
And if possible embrace it,
Be it a girl or boy.
Don't be bashful: be brash, be fresh.
Life is short, so enjoy.
Whatever contact your flesh
May at the moment crave:
There's no sex life in the grave

W.H. Auden, cit. in Luchino Visconti Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974)