Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Take ashes, Amaryllis, fetch them forth,
  2. and o'er your head into the running brook
  3. fling them, nor look behind: with these will
  4. upon the heart of Daphnis make essay.
  5. Nothing for gods, nothing for songs cares he.
  6. Look, look I the very embers of themselves
  7. have caught the altar with a flickering flame,
  8. while I delay to fetch them: may the sign