Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Look, look I the very embers of themselves
  2. have caught the altar with a flickering flame,
  3. while I delay to fetch them: may the sign
  4. prove lucky! something it must mean, for sure,
  5. and Hylax on the threshold 'gins to bark!