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 1646: 
 
ECLOGUE I. 
 
 MELIBCEUS. 
 
 Beneath this spreading beech, a sylvan lay, 
 You, Tityrus, on your oaten pipe essay : 
 Our homes, our pleasant fields, we leave behind, 
 Our country fly ; while you, to ease resign'd, 
 " Fair Amaryllis " teach the echoing glade. 
 
 TITYRUS. 
 
 A God this quiet, Melibocus, made : 
 
 For aye a God I'll deem him : — on his shrine, 
 
 Full many a lamb shall bleed, from folds of mine, 
 
ECLOGUE I. 
 
 lie willed ibat tliese my cows at large should stray, 
 And I, on rustic pipe, securely play. 
 
 MELIBCEUS. 
 
 I envy not, but wonder :~-such distress 
 On all sides ! Fainting, lo ! I onward press. 
 My goats ; and this scarce, Tityrus, drag along. 
 She twins, just yeaned yon hazel clumps among, 
 Has left, the flock's last hope, on flints to lie. 
 Yet — but my mind could nought aright descry- 
 Oft did the riven oaks predict the blow, ^ '■^ 
 Oft from the withered holm, th' ill-boding crow :— 
 But, Tityrus, who is he ?— this God ?—explain. 
 
 TITYRUS. 
 
 That city, Rom.e, they call it, I was fain 
 To rate by this of ours, where oft with stock 
 Of weanlings we resort, who tend the flock. 
 
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 Thus (logs in whelps, in kids their mothers' race 
 I've marked, and great hy smaller things could trace. 
 But slie all cities else beneath her sees, 
 Far as the cypress dwarf way-faring trees. 
 
 MELIBCEUS. 
 What cause so grave, to visit Rome constrained ? 
 
 TITYRUS. 
 
 'Twas freedom, which, thougli slow, to see me deigned ; 
 What time, when dipt, all silvery fell my beard : 
 To see me deigned, and there at length appeared. 
 Now, Galatea gone, Amaryllis reigns. 
 For bound, I own, by Galatea's chains, 
 I nor fur freedom hoped, nor cared for gold. 
 And what though many a victim loft my fold. 
 And richest cheese the thankless town supplied ; 
 Home, empty-handed, as before, I hied. 
 
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 ECLOGUE I. 
 
 MELIB(EUS. 
 
 Sad Amaryllis ! why— mctliought— those vows ? 
 For whom the fruits, yet hanging on thy boughs ? 
 Far hence was Tit} .s : Tityrus ! every tree 
 And every rill, and coppice called on thee. 
 
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 TITYRUS. 
 
 What should I do ? To ceaseless thrall consign'd, 
 
 Not elsewhere could I hope for Gods so kind. 
 
 That youth there, Melibccus, met my eyes, 
 
 To whom, for twice six days, our yearly offerings rise ; 
 
 'Twas there, my suit preventing, thus he spoke : 
 
 " Feed swains, as erst, your cows ; your oxen yoke." 
 
 MRLIBCEUS. 
 
 Happy old man ! whose lands remain thy own ; 
 And large enough : what though the naked stone 
 
ECLOGUE f. i| 
 
 Ami fon with slimy reods, o'erspread the farm ; 
 Nor change of food thy teeming danis shall harm, 
 Nor foul disease from neighbouring flocks annoy. 
 Happy old man ! who may'st the cool enjoy 
 StretchM by known streams and sacred rills at case. 
 This hedge-row here, where swarm th' Hyblaean bees, 
 To taste the sweets its sallow blooms disclose. 
 Shall oft with hummings woo thee to repose. 
 Here 'neath the rock the pruner trill his air : 
 Nor cease hoarse doves the while, thy darling care, 
 Nor from the lofty elm the turtle's wail. 
 
 TITYRUS. 
 
 Yes ! the fleet stags shall feed upon the gale. 
 Seas leave their fishes gasping on the shore ; 
 The Parthian and the German, wanderers o'er 
 Each other's bounds, of Saone and Tigris drink, . t^: 
 Ere his fond image to oblivion sink. 
 
 
ECLOGUE I. 
 
 ' M£UB(EUS. 
 
 But we, to Afric some must hence away : 
 
 Some far as Scytliia, or Crete's swift Oaxes stray, 
 
 Or Britain severed from the world beside— 
 
 Shall I, when distant summers onward glide, 
 
 Shall I behold my turf-built cot again, 
 
 And gaze with pride upon my own domain ? 
 
 Must all this tillage be a soldiers prey ? 
 
 These crops the strangers's ? See to what the sway 
 
 Of strife has led ! for whom we sowed our grain ! 
 
 Pears, MelibcDus, graft : the vineyard train : 
 
 Away, my goats, away, once happy flock ; 
 
 No more may I, as from the shrubby rock 
 
 Ye hang, look up, in verdant grot reclin'd. 
 
 Nor sing again, nor teach you where to find 
 
 The flowering withe and racy sallow trees. 
 
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ECLOGUE J. 
 
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 TITYRUS. 
 
 Yet you tliis night, with me can take your ease ; 
 Your bed fresh foliage, apples ripe for cheer, 
 And chesnuts soft, and curds in store are here. 
 Already smoko the distant village halls, 
 And from the heights, a lengthening shadows falls. 
 
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 Young Corydon for fair Alexis burned, 
 His lord's delight : nor hoped for love returned. 
 Yet he full oft 'mid beechen glades would stray ; 
 And there alone, would fondly breathe this lay, 
 To hill and grove in artless numbers borne ; — 
 harsh Alexis, thus my plaint to scorn ! 
 You heed me not, and will at last destroy. 
 The cattle now the cooling shade enjoy ; 
 Green lizards find a shelter in the brakes ; 
 And Thestylis, of thyme and garlic, makes 
 A savoury mess for reapers faint with heat : 
 Wh 'l.e in the scorching sun I track your feet, 
 
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 And the copse rings with grasshoppers 
 Better be doomed Am'ryliis' frowns to see, 
 Or smiles disdainful ! and Menalcas' too ! 
 Though he is swarthy, and so fair are you. 
 Sweet boy, not thus on charms of hue presume, 
 Dark hyacinths are culled, unsought whitr privets bloom- 
 But you, Alexis, care not whence I came. 
 What snow-white flocks, and store of milk I claim. 
 
 My thousand lambs Sicilian mountains graze, 
 Nor fails my milk in cold or summer davs. 
 
 I trill the strains with which Amphion led 
 
 His herds, on Attic Aracyntlius fed. 
 
 Nor am I so uncouth ; that form if true 
 
 Which late the sea's smooth mirror gave to view ; 
 
 Nor Daphnis I, yourself the judge, would fear. 
 
 Then deign with me, though mean my fields appear. 
 
 In lowly cots to dwell, the stag to chase, 
 
 And with green swih-h fo drive the kids Jipaco, 
 
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 With me in woods, Pan's tuneful numbers try. 
 
 'Twas Pan the reeds with waxen bands to tie 
 
 First taught ; Pan sheep and shepherds makes his care. 
 
 Then blush not if the reed your lip should wear ; 
 
 Such lore how gladly had Amyntas known ! 
 
 A pipe of seven unequal joints, I own : 
 
 A present which Damoetas, dying, made, 
 
 And " Thee it claims its second master," said 
 
 Thus he : With envy weak Amyntas pined. 
 
 I chanced too, in a dangerous pass to find 
 
 Twin kids, yet flecked with white ; each day they drain 
 
 Two ewes of milk : these I for vou retain. 
 
 Loncj time has Thestylis desired the prize : 
 
 And let her have a boon which you despise. 
 
 Yet come, sweet boy ! See Nymphs their lilies bear 
 
 In baskets full for you : the Naiad fair 
 
 Pale violets and poppy-heads combines. 
 
 And fracjrant anise with Narcissus twines. 
 
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ECLOGUK II. 
 
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 Then cassia round and scented herbs infolds, 
 
 And shades with berries dark the marigolds. 
 
 Myself will cull the peach with down so white, 
 
 And chesnuts, erst Am'ryllis own delight. 
 
 And plums will add, so honoured for your sake. 
 
 You laurels, and thee myrtle, next Til take : 
 
 Since ye thus blent soft odours interweave. 
 
 Fond swain ! nor gifts Alexis will receive, 
 
 Nor would lolas be in gifts surpassed : 
 
 Ah me ! that name ! — to flow'rs the southern blast. 
 
 And to the crystal springs the boars I've brought. 
 
 Whom shun you, senseless ? Woods the Gods have sought, 
 
 And Dardan Paris. Wliat if Pallas dwell 
 
 In her own tow'rs ? the woods may please us well. 
 
 Grim lioness the wolf pursues, and he 
 
 The goat, and wanton goat the blooming willow tree ; 
 
 I Corydon Alexis, — choice our law : 
 
 See home their trailing shares the oxen draw ; 
 
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 ECLOGUE II. 
 
 A two-fold shade the sun at parting throws : 
 
 Yet me love burns. How bounds to love impose ? 
 
 What madness, Corydon, ah Corydon ! 
 
 Thy vine yet droops the leafy elm upon, 
 
 Why not thy mind to useful labours turn, 
 
 And crates to weave of rush or osier learn ? 
 
 Another thou wilt find, if this Alexis spurn. 
 
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ECLOGUE III 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 DamostaSj say, are those Mel'boeus' sheep 
 
 DAMCETAS. 
 
 No ; but the flock which JEgon bade me keep. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Ah luckless sheep ! while he Neaera plies, 
 And dreads lest I find favour in her eyes ; 
 Twice by the hour, yon hireling milks the dams. 
 And enervates the flock, and cheats the Iambs. 
 
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 ECLO(iUK III. 
 
 DAM(ETA,S. 
 
 Less freely charges against men advance. 
 
 We know by whom— the he-goats looked askance, 
 
 And in what fane — though Nymphs were pleased to smile. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 They saw, methinks, on Mycons' props the while 
 And vines, with jagged hook I dealt the blow. 
 
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 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 Or when by those old beech trees, Daphnis' bow 
 And arrows thou didst break :— ah ! paltry swain — 
 Thou grievd'st to see that boy the prize obtain. 
 And unrevenged hadst died for very spite. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 When varlets thus — what may not lords of right ? 
 
 Did I not see you, consummate knave. 
 
 Snare Damon's goat ? — loud tongu j the mongrel gave, 
 
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 And while I cried : " Where slinks he now away ? 
 " Tityrus, the flock collect :" behind the sedge you lay. 
 
 DAMCETAS. 
 
 And what if fairly worsted he lettiined 
 A goat, the prize which my good pipe had gained ? 
 Know that same goat was mine : and this to me 
 Owned Damon's self : but pleaded poverty. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Worsted by you ! are you pcichance possest 
 
 Of any pipe? in by-ways skilled at best 
 
 To mar with squeaking straws some wretched air ! 
 
 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 Shall we what each may boast of skill, compare 
 By turns ? This heifer, which (lest you gainsay) 
 Twice seeks the pail, and feeds two calves a day, 
 I pledge : now name the wager you can make. 
 
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 ECLOGUE III. 
 
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 MENALCAS. • " 
 
 Nought could I venture from the flock to stake : 
 My sire and step-dame daily reckonings keep, 
 And twice each counts the kids, and both the sheep. 
 But since you will be mad,— and you must say 
 They're better far— two beechen bowls I lay, 
 A work heav'n-born Alcimedon designed : 
 Around their rims a vine, with skill entwined, 
 Flings o'er pale ivy wreaths its drapery. 
 There's Conon on the sides — and — who was he 
 That taught how far the bounds of earth extend. 
 And when the swain should reap, when o'er the ploughshare 
 
 bend ? 
 By lip unsoiled, they yet in store are laid. 
 
 DAM(ETAS. 
 Like bowls for me Alcimedon has made : 
 Has with their handles bears-foot interlaced ; 
 And Orpheus on the sides, the woods his suite, has traced. 
 
ECLOGUE III. 
 
 By lip unsoiled, they yet in store are laid. 
 But these the heifer throws into the shade. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 You 'scape not thus : such arts are lost on me, 
 Let who first comes be judge : Palaemon see ! 
 I'll teach you now from boasting to refrain. 
 
 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 On, do your best ; I ask not time to gain : 
 And fear no judge. Our good Palasmon, lend. 
 Close heed: 'tis for no trifle, we contend. 
 
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 PALiEMON. 
 
 Sing then, this sward a seat convenient seems ; 
 
 And now each field, each tree with promise teems : 
 
 The woods are green, the year is in its prime. 
 
 Damoetas first, Menalcas next in time. 
 
 Alternate sing :— The Muses love th' alternate rhyme.. 
 
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 DAMCETAS. 
 
 Jove first ; ye Muses ! Jove is every where : 
 He decks the earth, he makes my songs his care. 
 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Me Phoebus loves : with me are ever near ^ 
 Bays and sweet hyacinth, to Plioebus dear. 
 
 DAMCETAS. 
 
 Me Galatea pelts witli fruit : the quoan 
 Flies to the copse ; nor hopes to fly unseen. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 My flame, Amyntas aye to me has flown : 
 Nor to my dogs is Delia better known. 
 
 DAMCETAS. 
 
 A keepsake for my love ! I've marked with care 
 The spot, where doves aloft their nest prepare. 
 
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 MENALCAS. 
 
 My boy ten rosy wildings, gleaned with pain, 
 I've sent ; to-morrow, I will send again. 
 
 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 How oft breathed Galatea strains so sweet ! 
 Waft, gales, some accents, ears divine to greet. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 What boots it that Amyntas you are kind. 
 
 If, while the boar you chase, the toils I mind? ; 
 
 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 My birthday this, lolas ! Phyllis send : 
 When th' harvest calf I slay, thyself attend. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Tears, when I left, my best loved Phyllis shed. 
 And ; " Beauteous, fare thee well," lolas, said. 
 
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 DAM(KTAS. 
 
 Wolves rend the folds; and rains the standing corn : 
 And winds the trees ; me Amaryllis' scorn. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Spring wheat rain cheers ; and weanlings th' arbute tree ; 
 Withes teeming kine ; Arayntas only me. 
 
 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 Our strain so homely Pollio loves to hear : 
 A heifer, Muses, for your patron rear. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Aye, PollioK self writes verse : A bull be found 
 That threats with budding brow, and spurns the ground. 
 
 DAMCETAS. 
 
 Who loves thee Pollio, those thine honours share ! 
 For him flow honej , soice the bramble bear ! 
 
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 MENALCAS. 
 
 Who Bavins hates iu)f, Mccvius, love thy notes ! 
 Yoke foxes l,o, U\<xL .siinii., and milk he-goats ! 
 
 DAMtE'T^AS. 
 
 Ve swains, who llow'iets pluck and strawberries, 
 'Ware ! in that grass a cold snake ambushed lies. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Less freely range my ewes, nor heedless try 
 Yon bank ; tiie ram yet seeks his fleece to dry. 
 
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 DAMfETAS. 
 
 Ho ! Tityrns, from that stream my she-goats bring 
 All in good time, I'll wash them at the spring. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Swains, pen the ewes : in vain, when summer heats 
 Have dried the milk, we'll squteeze, as erst, the teats. 
 
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 DAM(ETAS. 
 
 Alas ! my bull liow lank, where grass abounds ! 
 'Tis love tlie herd, 'tis love the herdsman wounds. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Here love is not to blame — and yet they pine ! 
 Some spell destroys these tender lambs of mine. 
 
 DAMCETAS. 
 
 Say where, and great Apollo thou shalt be, 
 
 One scarce three ells of heaven's expanse can see. 
 
 MENALCAS. 
 
 Say where, inscribed with many a kingly name 
 Spring flowers ; and Phyllis without rival claim. 
 
 PALiEMON. 
 'Tis not for me such contests to decide : 
 The heifer each deserves, and all beside 
 Who know love's fearful joys, or anxious thrill. 
 Swains close the dikes ; the meads have drunk their fill. 
 
ECLOGUE IV. 
 
 Sicilian Muses, yet a loftier theme ! 
 
 Not shrubs, and lowly tamarisks, all beseem : 
 
 What groves we sing, should claim a Consul's ear 
 
 Dawns that last age foretold by Cumse's seer ; 
 
 Their cycles changed, the years revolve again : 
 
 The Virgin now returns, and Saturn's reign. 
 
 And a new progeny descends to earth. 
 
 But smile on him, at whose auspicious birth. 
 
 The iron race shall yield to that of gold, 
 
 O chaste Lucina ! thine Apollo king behold. 
 
 This glory shall thy consulship enhance 
 
 Pollio ; and thence the mighty months advance : 
 
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 ECLOGUE IV. 
 
 Our leader thou, vvhate'er remains of crime 
 
 Shall harmless prove for all succeeding time. 
 
 He shall with Gods consort, and, Gods among, 
 
 Observe, himself observed, the heroes throng : 
 
 And o'er glad earth, his sway paternal wield. 
 
 But first for thee, O babe, th' uncultured field 
 
 Shall, twined with lady's glove, the ivy spray. 
 
 And bears-foot, wreathed with fragrant bean, display, 
 
 The goats untended to the pail shall speed. 
 
 And herds no more the lion's strength shall heed. 
 
 Thy very cradle shall with flow'rets bloom. 
 
 The snake and treacherous bane shall meet their doom 
 
 From every soil, Assyrian spikenard rise. 
 
 But when of heroes, and thy sire's emprise, 
 
 'Tis thine to read, and deem of valour's due : 
 
 The tender corn shall glow with golden hue. 
 
 The blushing grape shall hang on brambles rude, 
 
 And dewy honey from hard oaks exude. 
 
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 Yet shull enough of olden guile be found 
 
 To tempt the sea in ships, to wall around 
 
 The cities, and with furrows earth to tear. 
 
 A Tiphys shall arise, an Argo bear 
 
 Her chosen heroes ; wars anew prevail ; 
 
 And great Achilles Troy once more assail. 
 
 But when thy riper age the man declares, 
 
 The seaman's craft shall cease ; no ship for wares 
 
 Shall ply, each land shall every fruit bestow. 
 
 No share the glebe, no hook the vine shall know : 
 
 The sturdy ploughman shall his steers untie. 
 
 Nor wool shall learn to wear a foreign dye : 
 
 But in the meads, the ram, with purple bloom, 
 
 Shall tinge his fleece, or saifron hues assume. 
 
 And scarlet clothe the lambkins as they feed : 
 
 " Our spindles tliese so happy ages speed " 
 
 The Parcoe said, v/hom Fate's firm bond unites. 
 
 Then come, expected long, assort thy rights, 
 
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 Bright olFspring of tlie Gods, of Jove create, 
 See the jj-reat <>lobe intent tliv rule await. 
 The hintls, tlie sea's expanse, tlie heavens sublime- 
 See how all welcome on th' approaching time ! 
 let me yet obtain such length of clays, 
 With just enough of brealli to sing thy praise ! 
 And me nor Thracian Orpheus shall transcend, 
 Nor Linus ; though their parents aid extend. 
 And this Calliope, Apollo that befriend. 
 Copes Pan, the umpire Arcady, with me ? 
 Pan's self shall yield, the umpire Arcady. 
 Begin sweet habe to know thy mother's smile ; 
 And of ten tedious months the qualms beguile. 
 Begin sweet habe, — who no such smile has seen. 
 Shall have no God for guest, nor Goddess wife I ween. 
 
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 The elder thou, Menalcas, I consent ; 
 Be shades by Zephyrs wafted to and fro, 
 Or yonder cave thy choice :— a wild vine lo ! 
 With clusters rare, has mantled o'er the cave. 
 
 
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 Why, since we've met, both, Mopsus, famed for skill, 
 Thou reeds to tune, and I the verse to trill, 
 Sit we not here, 'mid elms with hazels blent ? 
 
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 MENALCAS. 
 
 Thee but Amyntas on our liills would brave. 
 
 MOPSUS. 
 And what if he Apollo's self defy ? 
 
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 Begin ; let Phyllis' loves a theme supply, 
 Or Alcon's praise, or Codrus' strife essay ; 
 Begin ; here Tityrus with the kids shall stay. 
 
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 What late I carved upon the beech, (I sung 
 And carved, l)y turns, as o'er the work I hung) 
 I'll try : his part then bid Amyntas bear — 
 
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 As limber willow yields to olive fair. 
 
 Or lowly spike to rose of crimson glow, 
 
 So yields Amyntas, matched with thee, I trow. 
 
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 But shepherd, now no more :— the cave we've gained. 
 How Nymphs of Daphnis' cruel death comphiined 
 Ye hazels and ye streams full sure could tell : 
 When on her son's loved corse the mother fell, 
 And raved at heaven, and called the stars unkind. 
 O Daphnis, in those days nor swain could mind 
 His full fed steers by cooling brooks to lead : 
 Nor beast would taste the stream, or crop the mead. 
 That Afric's lions, Daphnis, mourned thy fate 
 The shaggy mountains and the woods relate, 
 'Twas Daphnis first Armenian tigers broke, 
 'Twas Daphnis taught to bear the Bacchic yoke. 
 And round the flexile lance the wreaths to twine. 
 As vines the trees, as clusters grace the vine. 
 As bulls the herd, and crops the fields adorn. 
 So thou didst thine ! — Since thou from hence art torn. 
 Thee '3 lands both Pales and Apollo leave ; 
 
 
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 O'er furrows, wont rich barley to receive, 
 
 Vile tare, and barren oats now lord at will ; 
 
 For violet soft, and purple dafliidil, 
 
 The bur or bramble rears a prickly head. 
 
 Go strew with leaves the groynd, the rills overspread 
 
 With bowers, ye swains ; 'twas Daphnis' dying pray'r ; 
 
 And raise a tomb, and grave this record there : 
 
 " I Daphnis of the woods, was famed on high, 
 
 " A comely flock I fed, more comely I." 
 
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 Thy song, bard divine, to me is sweet 
 
 As rest on grassy coucli ; or as, when heat 
 
 Has parched, tht; draught fresii sparkling from tlie spring. 
 
 Thy master's peer, 'tis thiiie to play or sing, 
 
 Blest youtli, and ruLKt to him thy place to claim. 
 
 But we, as best we may, a verse would frame ; 
 

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 And raise thy Daplinis to the stars above, 
 E'on to llie stars, for we too shared his love. 
 
 MOPSUS. 
 
 What boon to me like pleasure could convey ? 
 The swain deserves thy song ; besides, that lay 
 Long since did Stimicon with praises cite. 
 
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 Bright Daphnis heaven's high courts, with strange delight, 
 And clouds and stars beneath his feet descries. 
 Hence Mirth the woods and all die country plies, 
 And Pan, the shepherds and the Dryads fair. 
 No more to flocks the w^olf, to stags the snare 
 Destruction plots ; good Daphnis peace ordains. 
 Their joy rude mountains, widi exulting strains, 
 Tell to the stars ; and rocks and slu-ubs the song, 
 Mcnalca^, lo ! " <>. God ;i Goil ;" prolong. 
 
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 O bless tliiiio own ! Four allars rise to view !— 
 
 Lo ! Daplinis two for tliee, for Phoebus two. 
 
 Each year two cups of foaming milk as thine, 
 
 And of rich oil, two bowls I will assign. 
 
 But chief of Bacchus* cheer shall draughts be made, 
 
 In winter, by the hearth ; at harvest, in the shade. 
 
 In Chian jars rare nectar will I bring. 
 
 While Lyctian iEgon and Damatas sing. 
 
 And Alphes'boeus mocks the Satyr's dance. 
 
 When to the Nymphs witli offerings wc advance, 
 
 Or walk our bounds, these wonted gifts expect. 
 
 While boar shall heights, while fish shall streams affect, 
 
 Bees feed on thyme, and grasshoppers on dew. 
 
 Thy rites and name and praise shall aye be new. 
 
 With Bacchus and with Ceres thou shalt share 
 
 The ploughman's yearly vows ; and bind him to his pray'r. 
 
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 how requite thee for such strains as these ? 
 Not the faint whisper of the rising hreeze, 
 Not shores by surges lashed, could charm me so ; 
 Nor streams, as down tlio rocky dells they flow. 
 
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 But first accept this reed, on which I learned. 
 
 How " Corydon for fair Alexis burned " 
 
 And eke that strain : " Are those Mcl'bocus* sheep ?" 
 
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 This crook, Antigenes so longed to keep, 
 (And lovely he who failed my mind to shake) 
 Bright with match'd studs and brass, Menalcas take. 
 
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 My Muse first deigned in Doric verse to sport, 
 Nor blushed to make tlie "woodlands her resort. 
 But when of kings and wars I sung, my ear 
 Apollo twitched, and--" Tityrus," said " to rear 
 " Fat sheep be thine, and home-spun verse to f rame''- 
 NtJw, Varus, since there lack not who shall aim 
 To sound thy praise, and note thy dread campaigns, 
 I the slirill pipe will tune to rural strains — 
 Strains not denied : yet these, whoe'er may see 
 Shall find how tamarisks. Varus, sing of thee, 
 Of thee each grove : nor Phoibus more delights 
 Than in the page which Varus' name recites. 
 On Muses !— Chromis and Mnasylus spied 
 Silenus in a cave witli slumbers plied ; 
 

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 Ilia veins yestro^en's accumstomud cIiglt betray | 
 
 While fuU'n tu tlio gruutul his chaplcts lay, 
 
 And by its well worn cur his tankard hung. 
 
 Oft cheated of the promised song, they flung 
 
 Around him bands, from his own chaplets made. 
 
 To join them, iEgle comes with timely aid, 
 
 iBgle of Naiads fairest, and applies 
 
 Red mulberries to his brow, while he half opes his eyes. 
 
 He, smiling at the trick : " Wliy forge these chains ? 
 
 " SufTicient the surprise ; come loose me, swains, 
 
 " I'll sing tlie song yo want ; but her I'll pay 
 
 *^ In other coin,"' nor did he more delay. 
 
 Then had ye seen tlie Fauns and Satyrs danco, 
 
 And stately oaks with heads inclined, advance. 
 
 Not Phcebus, crag Parnassian honours tluis, 
 
 Not Orpheus, Rliodope and Ismarus. 
 
 He sung how, through tlie mighty void propell'd, 
 
 The germs of earth, and air, and sea were held 
 
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 With liquid lire combined ; whence all things came, 
 
 And this young earth grew up into a frame. 
 
 How the soil hardening 'gan confine the seas, 
 
 And varying forms assume by slow degrees. 
 
 How lands the sun's new beams beheld amazed, 
 
 And rains distilled from cloads in air upraised : 
 
 Wlien first the woods their leafy covert reared, 
 
 And beasts unfrcquent in tlie wilds appeared. 
 
 He tells of Pyrrha's stones, of Saturn's reign, 
 
 Caucasian birds, Promethus' lawless gain ; 
 
 Adds, how the crew missed Hylas from that spring. 
 
 And made the shores with " Hylas," " Hylas " ring. 
 
 Then her, who loved the snow-wliite steer, how blest 
 
 If herds had never been ! he soothes to rest. 
 
 What frenzy tliee, ah hapless virgin ! tiirilled ? 
 
 Fields with muck lowin<fs Praetus' daughters filled : 
 
 Yet none of them for herds a lust so vile 
 
 Conceived; though each had feared the plough the while, 
 
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 And felt, for budding horns, her polished brow. 
 Thou roam'st the heights, ah hapless virgin thou ! 
 Prop't on soft hyacinth, his snowy side. 
 He chews the cudj by dark holm canopied. 
 Or wantons with the herd.—" Dictoean maids 
 " Surround, surround each opening in the glades : 
 " If haply to our eyes may yet appear 
 " Some traces of his feet. Perchance the steer, 
 " By fresher meads, or cows enticed to stray, 
 " Now to Gortyna's stalls pursues his way."— 
 He sings the maid by golden fruits undone : 
 Then wraps, the sisters round of Phaeton 
 Bark-moss, and rears tall alders from the ground ; 
 Next sings of Gallus, by Permessus found. 
 How the Muse led him to \\i Aonian seat. 
 And Phopbus' choir uprose the bard to greet ; 
 And Linus, he the swain, of song divine, 
 Flow'rs with whose liair, ;ind bitter parsley twine, 
 
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 Address'd him : " Take, the Muses give thp /re(Bf| 
 " They gave th' Ascrcean sage, thus \vont tp Jead 
 " The sturdy ashes from the hills abov^ : 
 " On this so praise the famed Grynoean groye, 
 " That Phoebus there may most delight to d\^FeU.'* 
 Why now with him of Nisus' daughter tell, 
 Round whose fair loins those howling mppstej-s brood, 
 Who whelmed Pulichian ships, and 'neath tlie flood, 
 Gave to spa dogs, 'tis said, the trembling crew ? 
 Why tell how those new limbs of Tereus grew ? 
 What stores to feast him Philomel had brought. 
 Or with what speed the wilds she luckless sought, 
 And what was once her palace, fluttered o'er ? 
 All that, so blest as Pliojbus mused of yore, 
 Eurotas heard, and bade his bays retain. 
 He sings ; the vales to heaven repeat the strain. 
 Till Vesper, climbing loth Olympus' steep, 
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 As Daphriis sal where sighed a holm o'erspreatl, 
 Thyrsis and Corydon their flocks had led, 
 Sheep Thyrsis, Corydon milch goats, that way ; 
 Both blooming youths, Arcadians both were they : 
 Well match'd in song, and prompt to test their skill. 
 Now while my myrtles, lest the frost should kill, 
 I fence, the husband of the flock has strayM : 
 I Daphnis spy— he thus, with ready aid ; 
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 " Here rest tho in the shade, if naught forbids. 
 
 " The steers to drink will hither cross the mead, 
 
 " Here Mincius verdant banks has fringed with reed, 
 
 " And swarms from out the sacred oak resound." 
 
 What should I do ? nor was Alcippe found. 
 
 Nor Phyllis, who to pen the lambs, might care. 
 
 But Corydon with Thyrsis — a great m^tch was there !- 
 
 To weightier things that pastime I preferr'd, 
 
 Thus how they sung alternate strains I heard : 
 
 Such strains, for so the Muses willed, they chose, 
 
 And these sung Corydon, and Thj'rsis those. 
 
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 Libethrian Nymphs, my sole delight, such art 
 As ye on Codrus have bestowed, impart : 
 He next to Phcabus ranks, if vain the suit ; 
 Here from this sacred i)iiie, shall hung my flute. "; 
 
ECLOGUE VII. 
 
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 With ivy wreaths your rising bard requite, 
 Arcadian swains, til). Codrus burst with spite ; 
 Or round these brows, a fence of spikenard raise, 
 Lest his foul tongue assail with artful praise. 
 
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 This bristling boar's head, and these antlers see, 
 Which little Mycon, Delia, brings to thee. 
 Still smile, and thou of marble whole, shalt stand, 
 And for thy buskin wear a purple band. 
 
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 These cakes and milk, our yearly gift, expect : 
 There's but a patch, Priapus, to protect. 
 We've made thee now of marble ; if the fold 
 With increase teem, thou shalt be all of gold. 
 

 
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 Nymph Galaty, than thyme more sweet I ween, 
 Than swans mofe fair, more bright than ivy's sheen : 
 Soon as fed bullocks to their stalls repair, 
 comC) if thou for Corydon dost care. 
 
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 Me thaft Sardonic herbs more tart esteem, 
 
 Than furze more rough, more vile than sea- weed deem ; 
 
 If a whole year drags long as this one day. 
 
 Hence home, my full-fed steers, for shame ! away. 
 
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 Rills, clothed with moss, and grass than sleep more soft. 
 
 And verdant arbute's scanty screen aloft. 
 
 My flock protect :— fierce summer now is near ; 
 
 On joyous vinfe the swelling buds appear. 
 
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 Here's aye, a hearth, cleft pine, a cheerful blaae : 
 
 Each lintel marks of constant smoke betrays. 
 
 As much we care for pinching Boreas here, 
 
 As wolves dense flocks, or floods th* embankment fear. 
 
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 Here junipers, and chesnuts hoar abound ; 
 Fruits, each its tree beneath, lie scattered round. 
 All wears a smile— let fair Alexis fly 
 These hills, youMl see the very fountains dry. 
 
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 The field is parched, and shrunk the thirsty blade ; 
 Bacchus has grudged our hills the vine-leaf's shade : 
 Let Phyllis come, each grove shall bloom again ; 
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 Alcides poplars, Bacchus vines delight, 
 Fair Venus myrtles, Phoebus bays of right ; 
 The hazels Phyllis charm — if she commend, 
 Not hazels bay or myrtle shall transcend. 
 
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 Ash most in woods, in gardens pine invites, 
 By rivers poplar, fir on mountain heights : 
 Fair Lycidas, more oft be guest of mine ; 
 And woodland ash excel, and garden pine. 
 
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 I mind they strove, but Thyrsis vainly, thus ; 
 Thenceforth 'twas Corydon, 'twas Corydon for us ! 
 
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 Damon and Alphes'boeus' rival lays, 
 
 Which the rapt heifer heard, nor cared to graze ; 
 
 While lynxes at the sound, with wondev thrilled. 
 
 And streams entranced their wonted currents stilled ; 
 
 Damon and Alphes'boeus' lays we sing. 
 
 Thou who o'er broad Timavus' rocks dost spring 
 
 Or sweeps't th' Illyrian coast ; say, shall it be. 
 
 That feats of thine may find a bard in me ? 
 
 Shall I the wide world with thy numbers fill, 
 
 Sole numbers meet for Sophoclean skill ? 
 
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 My first, last theme art thou : the strain receive 
 Thyself didst claim, and grant me to inweave 
 Ar ivy chaplet with thy conquering bay. 
 W len night's dank shadow scarce had passed away, 
 And sweetest seems to herds the dewy blade, 
 Thus Damon, 'gainst a tapering olive stay'd : 
 Rise Lucifer, lead on th' auspicious morn ; 
 While I complain, the,»sport of Nisa's scorn ; 
 And to the Gods, though reckless sure are they, 
 Once more appeal with dying breath, — the lay 
 Of Mffinalus, with me, my pipe essay. 
 Shrill pines has Mcenalus, and a whispering grove ; 
 And aye he lists the shepherds' tale of love, 
 And Pan who waked the silent reeds,— the lay 
 Of Mcenalus, with me, my pipe essay. 
 Then Mopsus Nisa weds ! shall lovers fegtr ? 
 With steeds will griffons mate, and timorous deer 
 In the next age with hounds to drink repair. 
 
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 Fresh torches, MupsuH, cut : — the bride is there- 
 Strew nuts :— from CEta Vesper speeds,— the lay 
 Of McenaluB, with me, my pipe essay. 
 proud of such a lord ! while all beside 
 You treat with scorn, my flute and goats deride, 
 Nor can long beards, and shaggy brows abide ; 
 And think no Ood heeds things of earth,— the lay 
 Of Moenalus, with me, my pipe essay. 
 You with your mother, in our crofts I spied, 
 A child a-gathering apples : (I was guide). 
 Then my twelfth year did first its hold maintain. 
 And I the branches from the ground could gain. 
 How at the sight, my heart died down ! — the lay 
 Of Moenalus, with me, my pipe essay. 
 Now know I Love ; on rugged cliffs the child 
 Tmaros or Rhodope, or Lybians wild. 
 Do nurse, of alien birth and race, — the lay 
 Of Moenalus, with me, my pipe essay. 
 
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 Fell Love the mother taught her hands t' imbrue ' 
 III childicii's blood ; yet mother, fierce were you : 
 Did slie more rage, or he more guile betray ? 
 The boy was base, you, mother fierce — the lay 
 Of Muinalus, with me, my pipe essay. < • 
 
 From sliecp fly wolf; with golden fruitage glow 
 Hard oaks ; on alder tree Narcissus blow ; '!." 
 
 Rich amber from their rinds let tamarisks weep, 
 Owls vie with swans ; Arion of the deep, 
 Orpheus of woods let Tityrus be : — the lay > 
 
 Of Mocnalus, with me, my pipe essay. ■ ;. ;. 
 
 All be one boundless sea ! Ye woods, farew^ell ! 
 Prone from yon clitF, I plunge where billows swell, 
 Take this my dying gift — forbear the lay 
 Of Mcenalus, my pipe, forbear to play. 
 Thus Uamon : Alphes'boeus' song recal r. 
 
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 Bring water ; round these slirines soft fillet bind, 
 
 Rich vervains burn and frankincense relin'd, 
 
 Till I some spell prepare, to turn the mind 
 
 Of my lalse swain— but charms we need ;— my charms 
 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 
 By charms entranced, the moon from heaven descends : 
 
 By charms could Circe change Ulysses' friends : 
 
 Charmed in the meads, the cold snake bursts— my charms 
 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 
 Three threads of triple hue, I round thee twine. 
 
 And thrice I draw thine image nmnd the slirine. 
 
 Uneven numbers please the Goil—my charms 
 
 Draw from the town, driiw Daphnis to my arms. 
 
 Thrice twist three colours, and : " for Love's alarms 
 
 These bands I twist," Am'ryllis siiy :— my charms 
 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 
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 Strew salt cakes, feed with pitch this blazing bay : 
 I Daphnis burn, who me has burnt — my charms 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 So Daphnis pine, as when thro' wood and glade 
 A heifer faint to find her steer, has stray'd, 
 Then sinks on the green sedge, the stream beside, 
 Nor care to leave at waning eventide : 
 So pine — while I the balm withhold ! — my charms 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 The relics which that false one left with me, 
 Dear pledges ! in this threshold. Earth, to thee 
 I now consign, and Daphnis claim — my charms 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 These herbs for me, these poisons Moeris chose, 
 In Pontus culled, where many a poison grows. 
 Changed to a wolf, by these I've seen him tread 
 The wilds, and from their graves evoke the dead, 
 And plant elsewhere th' uprooted corn ;- -my charms 
 
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 Draw from tl'ie town, draw Daplinis to my arms. 
 Forth embers o'er thy head, Am'ryllis throw 
 In yonder brook, nor turn thee ; Daphnis so 
 I'll reach : nor Gods, nor spells he heeds— my charms 
 Draw from the town, draw Daphnis to my arms. 
 See ! while I linger, round the altar plays 
 Self-kindled, (bode it good !) a fitful blaze. 
 There's something— Hylax in the threshold bays ! 
 Heard we ? or dream we lovers ?— Cease my charms, 
 Cease, from the town speeds Daphnis to my arms. 
 
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 O Lycidas, we've lived to see the day, 
 We ne'er had thought to see : " Your homes resign" 
 An alien lord can say ; " The lands are mine !" 
 We with poor grace, hut all to fate must hend. 
 These kids to him, (bad luck go with them !) send. 
 
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 Why I had heard that all the wide champaign, 
 From where the hills first slope towards the plain, 
 Far as the stream, and beech with shrivelled head, 
 Menalcas' songs had saved, so w^ell they sped. 
 
 
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 Thou heard'st it,— true ; — But songs 'mid War's array 
 
 So, Lycidas, avail us, as, they say, 
 
 Chaonian doves, when th' eagle aims a blow. 
 
 And had not from yon holm, the boding crow 
 
 Forewarned us to avoid fresh cause of strife. 
 
 Nor Moeris, nor Menalcas' self had 'scaped with life. 
 
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 Breathes one so vile ? What ! do we scarce retain 
 
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 Would strew ? or clothe the rills with leafy bow'rs ? 
 Who tune the lay, by stealth, I heard thee sing, 
 While to my loved AmVyllis journeying ? 
 " Till I return ('tis short the journey) feed 
 " My she-goats, Tityrus, and to watering lead, 
 " And of that buck the while, he butts — beware." 
 
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 Or that to Varus, an unfinished ai** : — 
 
 " Thy name, Varus, ours if Mantua be, 
 
 " So near C''emona, Mantua woe is thee ! 
 
 " The tuneful swans shall raise to heaven on high." 
 
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 So may thy swarms Cyrnean yew trees fiy ; 
 So teem witli milk, thy kine, on sallows fed ! 
 E'en do thy best — me too the Muses bred. 
 
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 And I too verse compose ; a poet's name 
 
 The swains accord me, though 1 doubt my claim : 
 
 Nor meei ^or Varus or for Cinna deem 
 
 My songs ; 'mid swans a cackling goose I seem. 
 
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 Such, Lycidas my aim ; I muse thus long 
 
 If to recal it— 'twas no vulgar song : 
 
 " Come Galatea, why o'er Ocean bound ? 
 
 " Here blooms the spring, and here, the streams around 
 
 *' Earth throws her fli^wers :— the aspen's silvery leaves 
 
 " Droop o'er the grot, the vine a trellis weaves ; 
 
 " Come ; and let seas chafe madly if they will." 
 
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 What, that bright evening, did I hear thee trill ? 
 The air I mind, could I the words supply. 
 
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 " Why Daphnis thus the ancient signs descry ? 
 " See Dionaean Caesar's star advance : 
 " That star, 'neath which the crops with joy shall dance, 
 " On sunny hills the grape fresh tints assume. 
 "Graft, Daphnis, pea.'s, which for thy sons unborn shall 
 
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 Age spares not e'en the mind ! in youthful prime, 
 The livelong day I've cheated with my rhyme. 
 Now all those songs are lost — from Moeris flies 
 His utterance :— Moeris sure did wolves surprise ; 
 But this same lay Menalcas oft shall frame. 
 
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 Such fond excuses but desire inflame. 
 See yon smooth surface not a ripple breaks, 
 And not one passing breath a murmur wakes. 
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 Looms into view ; and pruners strew the ground 
 With leaves : her. sing we, Mceris ; here lay down 
 The kids ; in season we shall reach the town. 
 Or, since a shower at night-fall we may fear, 
 We'll on our journey, and, the road to cheer, 
 Sing as we go ;— the bundle I will bear. 
 
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 Urge me no more ; for business let us care, 
 We best shall sing, when he our song can share. 
 
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ECLOGUE X. 
 
 This my last labour, Arethusa speed. 
 Brief strains, but which Lycoris' self may read, ; 
 I frame ;—how strains deny, which Gallus craves ? 
 So, when thou glid'st beneath Sicilian waves, 
 No briny Doris blend with thine her stream ! 
 Begin we, Gallus' loves the mournful theme, 
 The while our flat-nosed goats the saplings browse, 
 Nor sing we to the deaf ;— the woods each echo rouse. 
 What groves detained you, or what devious glade. 
 Ye Nymphs, when Gallus pined by love betray'd ? 
 
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 Nor did Parnassus' hence, nor Pindus' steep, 
 
 Nor did Aonian Aganippe keep. 
 
 Him e'en the bays and tamarisks 'g^n bemoan ; 
 
 Him pine-clad Maenalus, as he lay alone 
 
 Beneath the cliff, and chill Lycoeus' heights of stone. 
 
 The sheep stand roaod, nor view they us with shame, 
 
 Nor blush thou, bard d'vine, the flock to claim ; 
 
 Adonis tended sheep, and he so fair ! 
 
 The swain, and eke the tardy neatherds there, . 
 
 And drench'd with wintery mast, Menalcas hied : 
 
 All " whence this love ?" demand ; Apollo cried : 
 
 " Why, Gallus, rave ? Lycoris, she who charms, 
 
 " Another seeks, 'mid snows and war's alarms." 
 
 Silvanus came, with rustic honours crown'd. 
 
 Gay fennel waving, and tall lilies round. 
 
 And Pan, Arcadia's God : whom we descried. 
 
 With elder's blood-red juice, and vermil dyed : 
 
 " Why all this grief?" he said. " Love does not heed. 
 
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 " Tears cloy not Love ; as soon shall rills the mead, 
 " The sallow bees, or browse the she-goats fill." 
 He faltering thus : " Yet ye the strain shall trill, 
 Your heights among, of matchless lore possest 
 Arcadians ! how my bones at peace might rest, 
 If but your flutes sometime my loves would tell ! 
 Ah ! had it been my lot with you to dwell, 
 Had flocks of your's, or vineyards been my care, 
 Then Phyllis, or Amyntas, or whoe'er 
 My flame (if dusk Amyntas is to view 
 The violets are black and bilberries too) 
 With me had lain on withes by vine o'erhung. 
 And Phyllis wreaths had twined, Amyntas sung. 
 Cool streams are here, Lycoris, meadows gay, 
 A grove : — here let us while our life away. 
 But madding passion drives thee hence afar. 
 To mix with foemen, in the strife of war. 
 
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 Thou from thy home (alas ! that it is so !) 
 O'er Alpine snows, and frozen Rhine can'st go, 
 Nor wish me near ; ye frosts, to hurt forbear ! 
 Those tender feet, ye icy causeways spare ! 
 ril get me hence, and tune Euphorion's strain 
 To the shrill pipe of the Sicilian swain ; 
 Yes, I'm resolved, the haunts of bccosts I'll brave 
 In woods, and there my loves on saplings grave : 
 Thus with their growth, ye too, my lovrs, shall grow. 
 Now thronged with Nymphs to Meenalus I'll go : 
 Or hunt fierce boars ; no frosts my course shall stay 
 Wlinn I, with hounds, Parthenian glades survey. 
 Me thinks o'er rocks and crackling woods I spring ; 
 And Parthian bows with Cretan arrows wing : 
 As though such remedies could bring me ease, 
 Or woes of man the insatiate God appease. 
 Now nor the Dryads, nor our songs delight : 
 Once more, ye woodlands, vanish from die siglit, 
 
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 Not all our pains his fell resolve can shake ; 
 Not if with Hebrus' ico our thirst we slake, 
 Or dare the rigour of Sithonlan skies : 
 Not if, where parched the tall clni's verdure dies. 
 The CEthiop's flock we tend, 'neath Cancer's ray. 
 Love conquers all ; then let us Love obey." 
 Enough, ye Muses, will your bard have sung, 
 As twining osiers, o'er his work he hung. 
 If ye but make the strain to Gallus dear : 
 Gallus, whose charms each hour as fresh appear. 
 As the green alder's shoots in early spring. 
 Up ! evening's shadow suits not those who sing : 
 Now junipers grow rank, and crops decay : 
 Hence, sated goats, lo ! Vesper, hence away.