Eclogues

Virgil

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

of earth, air, ocean, and of liquid fire,

how all that is from these beginnings grew,

and the young world itself took solid shape,

then 'gan its crust to harden, and in the deep

shut Nereus off, and mould the forms of things

little by little; and how the earth amazed