Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • and the Caucasian birds, and told withal
  • nigh to what fountain by his comrades left
  • the mariners cried on Hylas till the shore
  • then re-echoed “Hylas, Hylas!” soothed
  • pasiphae with the love of her white bull—
  • happy if cattle-kind had never been!—