Eclogues

Virgil

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

and of slim mallow wove a basket fine:

to Gallus ye will magnify their worth,

Gallus, for whom my love grows hour by hour,

as the green alder shoots in early Spring.

Come, let us rise: the shade is wont to be

baneful to singers; baneful is the shade

cast by the juniper, crops sicken too

in shade. Now homeward, having fed your fill—

eve's star is rising—go, my she-goats, go.