Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. warned by a raven on the left, cut short
  2. the rising feud, nor I, your Moeris here,
  3. no, nor Menalcas, were alive to-day.
LYCIDAS
  1. Alack! could any of so foul a crime
  2. be guilty? Ah! how nearly, thyself,
  3. reft was the solace that we had in thee,
  4. Menalcas! Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
  5. or who with flowering herbs bestrewn the ground,
  6. and o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?—