Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and all the murmuring breezes sunk to sleep.
  2. We are half-way thither, for Bianor's tomb
  3. begins to show: here, Moeris, where the hinds
  4. are lopping the thick leafage, let us sing.
  5. Set down the kids, yet shall we reach the town;
  6. or, if we fear the night may gather rain
  7. ere we arrive, then singing let us go,
  8. our way to lighten; and, that we may thus
  9. go singing, I will case you of this load.