Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and Dryad-maidens, thrill with eager joy;
  2. nor wolf with treacherous wile assails the flock,
  3. nor nets the stag: kind Daphnis loveth peace.
  4. The unshorn mountains to the stars up-toss
  5. voices of gladness; ay, the very rocks,
  6. the very thickets, shout and sing, ‘A god,
  7. a god is he, Menalcas’ Be thou kind,
  8. propitious to thine own. Lo! altars four,
  9. twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
  10. for sacrifice, we build; and I for thee