transLatin' "Photograph" by Ed Sheeran (TransLatin #IX)

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This is my translation of Ed Sheeran's song "Photograph" into rhyming, elided, Classical Latin with syllables stressed correctly (but see my notes below if you're interested in the particulars of elision and syllable stress). Credits: • Ed Sheeran for the original song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSDgHBxUbVQ • Me for the background photo, which shows a close-knit neighbourhood called the Garden Quarter in my birth-town of Chester. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dunnock_d/18092768214 • Me for the translation and video. Notes: • In ancient Latin poetry, if a word ending in a vowel (or vowel + M) ended the word immediately before a word beginning with a vowel (or H), the vowel (or vowel + M) at the end of the first word would be omitted - this is elision. The exception is where the second word is "es" or "est", which are such mundane words that they lose their initial E after words ending in a vowel (or vowel + M) instead - this is prodelision. The other exception (in ancient poetry) would be at a line-break, where no elision/prodelision would take place and all the letters would be pronounced; however I ignore line-breaks to make writing easier. • With regards to syllable stress, I simply put the accent on the penult of a disyllable, the penult of a polysyllable with a long penult, and the antepenult of a polysyllable with a short penult. Some people say that words ending in enclitics should have the stress on the same syllable that is stressed without the enclitic (so NUMquamque from NUMquam, rather than my numQUAMque), and that "illic" and compounds from the imperatives "fer" and "duc" should be stressed on the ultima rather than my penult. Adopting these caveats would probably make writing my translation easier, but being as stubborn and fond of consistency as I am I am reluctant to change without solid evidence that they were followed! I may well decide to write future TransLatins in this way though. • In the line "Iuro id fore facilius" (a very rushed job I'll admit), the "id" would refer to the "cor" ("heart") of the previous lines. The sense would be "I swear the heart will be easier [to cope with or manage]", not "I swear life will get easier" ("Iuro res secundiores fore", perhaps). Questions? Suggestions? Corrections? Tell me below!