Eclogues

Virgil

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

of the changed limbs of Tereus—what a feast,

what gifts, to him by Philomel were given;

how swift she sought the desert, with what wings

hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?

All that, of old, Eurotas, happy stream,

heard, as Apollo mused upon the lyre,

and bade his laurels learn, Silenus sang;

till from Olympus, loth at his approach,

vesper, advancing, bade the shepherds tell