Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Silvanus came, with rural honours crowned;
  2. the flowering fennels and tall lilies shook
  3. before him. Yea, and our own eyes beheld
  4. pan, god of Arcady, with blood-red juice
  5. of the elder-berry, and with vermilion, dyed.
  6. “Wilt ever make an end?” quoth he, “behold