Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- am to the stars exalted, guardian once
- of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.’”
- So is thy song to me, poet divine,
- as slumber on the grass to weary limbs,
- or to slake thirst from some sweet-bubbling rill
- in summer's heat. Nor on the reeds alone,
- but with thy voice art thou, thrice happy boy,