Eclogues

Virgil

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

earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound,

all, see, enraptured of the coming time!

Ah! might such length of days to me be given,

and breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds,

nor Thracian Orpheus should out-sing me then,

nor Linus, though his mother this, and that

his sire should aid—Orpheus Calliope,