Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
- if, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
- of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
- and all the woodland ring; nor can there be
- a page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
- where, foremost writ, the name of Varus stands.
- Speed ye, Pierian Maids! Within a cave
- young Chromis and Mnasyllos chanced to see
- silenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont,