Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. Led by these tokens, and with such traits to guide,
  2. Some say that unto bees a share is given
  3. Of the Divine Intelligence, and to drink
  4. Pure draughts of ether; for God permeates all—
  5. Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault of heaven—
  6. From whom flocks, herds, men, beasts of every kind,
  7. Draw each at birth the fine essential flame;
  8. Yea, and that all things hence to Him return,
  9. Brought back by dissolution, nor can death
  10. Find place: but, each into his starry rank,
  11. Alive they soar, and mount the heights of heaven.