Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- “Why, Daphnis, upward gazing, do you mark
- the ancient risings of the Signs? for look
- where Dionean Caesar's star comes forth
- in heaven, to gladden all the fields with corn,
- and to the grape upon the sunny slopes
- her colour bring! Now, the pears;
- so shall your children's children pluck their fruit.”
- Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
- now all the deep is into silence hushed,
- and all the murmuring breezes sunk to sleep.
- We are half-way thither, for Bianor's tomb
- begins to show: here, Moeris, where the hinds
- are lopping the thick leafage, let us sing.
- Set down the kids, yet shall we reach the town;