Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. Shouldst haply of the furrow's depth inquire,
  2. Even to a shallow trench I dare commit
  3. The vine; but deeper in the ground is fixed
  4. The tree that props it, aesculus in chief,
  5. Which howso far its summit soars toward heaven,
  6. So deep strikes root into the vaults of hell.
  7. It therefore neither storms, nor blasts, nor showers
  8. Wrench from its bed; unshaken it abides,
  9. Sees many a generation, many an age
  10. Of men roll onward, and survives them all,
  11. Stretching its titan arms and branches far,
  12. Sole central pillar of a world of shade.