Eclogues

Virgil

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

little by little; and how the earth amazed

beheld the new sun shining, and the showers

fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the woods

'gan first to rise, and living things to roam

scattered among the hills that knew them not.

Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast,

of Saturn's reign, and of Prometheus' theft,

and the Caucasian birds, and told withal

nigh to what fountain by his comrades left