Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. or Britain, from the whole world sundered far.
  2. Ah! shall I ever in aftertime behold
  3. my native bounds—see many a harvest hence
  4. with ravished eyes the lowly turf-roofed cot
  5. where I was king? These fallows, trimmed so fair,
  6. some brutal soldier will possess these fields
  7. an alien master. Ah! to what a pass
  8. has civil discord brought our hapless folk!
  9. For such as these, then, were our furrows sown!
  10. Now, Meliboeus, graft your pears, now set