Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. the fields we hallow. Long as the wild boar
  2. shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
  3. while bees on thyme and crickets feed on dew,
  4. thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
  5. Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
  6. to thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
  7. and thou thereof, like them, shalt quittance claim.”