Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. 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.
  5. There instant answer gave he to my suit,
  6. “Feed, as before, your kine, boys, rear your bulls.”
MELIBOEUS
  1. So in old age, you happy man, your fields
  2. will still be yours, and ample for your need!
  3. Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the pastures all