Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
  • her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
  • new wars too shall arise, and once again
  • some great Achilles to some Troy be sent.
  • Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
  • no more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
  • ply traffic on the sea, but every land