Eclogues Virgil Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921. muses of Sicily, essay we nowa somewhat loftier task! Not all men lovecoppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods,woods worthy of a Consul let them be.Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sunghas come and gone, and the majestic rollof circling centuries begins anew: