Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. There instant answer gave he to my suit,
  2. “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
  4. be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
  5. by no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
  6. through taint contagious of a neighbouring flock.
  7. Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams