Eclogues Virgil Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921. and by a sister of the Muses ledto the Aonian mountains, and how allthe choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; howthe shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:“These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,wherewith in singing he was wont to drawtime-rooted ash-trees from the mountain heights.