Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- of Damon and Alphesiboeus now,
- those shepherd-singers at whose rival strains
- the heifer wondering forgot to graze,
- the lynx stood awe-struck, and the flowing streams,
- unwonted loiterers, stayed their course to hear—
- how Damon and Alphesiboeus sang
- their pastoral ditties, will I tell the tale.
- Thou, whether broad Timavus' rocky banks
- thou now art passing, or dost skirt the shore
- of the Illyrian main,—will ever dawn