Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. a god is he, Menalcas’ Be thou kind,
  2. propitious to thine own. Lo! altars four,
  3. twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
  4. for sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
  5. two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
  6. and of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
  7. and of the wine-god's bounty above all,
  8. if cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
  9. at harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,