Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. am to the stars exalted, guardian once
  2. of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.’”
MENALCAS
  1. So is thy song to me, poet divine,
  2. as slumber on the grass to weary limbs,
  3. or to slake thirst from some sweet-bubbling rill
  4. in summer's heat. Nor on the reeds alone,
  5. but with thy voice art thou, thrice happy boy,
  6. ranked with thy master, second but to him.
  7. Yet will I, too, in turn, as best I may,