Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- the very vineyards, cried aloud for you.
- What could I do? how else from bonds be freed,
- or otherwhere find gods so nigh to aid?
- There, Meliboeus, I saw that youth to whom
- yearly for twice six days my altars smoke.
- There instant answer gave he to my suit,
- “Feed, as before, your kine, boys, rear your bulls.”
- So in old age, you happy man, your fields
- will still be yours, and ample for your need!
- Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the pastures all