Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. you cried to heaven so sadly, and for whom
  2. you left the apples hanging on the trees;
  3. 'twas Tityrus was away. Why, Tityrus,
  4. the very pines, the very water-springs,
  5. the very vineyards, cried aloud for you.
TITYRUS
  1. What could I do? how else from bonds be freed,
  2. or otherwhere find gods so nigh to aid?
  3. There, Meliboeus, I saw that youth to whom
  4. yearly for twice six days my altars smoke.