Georgic

 1    I|  penetrating showers,~Or fierce sun’s ravening might, or searching
 2    I|      Therefore it is the golden sun, his course ~Into fixed
 3    I|       chilly night, or when the sun is young,~And Dawn bedews
 4    I|       along the sky.~Not to the sun’s warmth then upon the shore~
 5    I|    triumph.~But if the headlong sun    ~And moons in order following
 6    I|    Melicertes, Ino’s child.~The sun too, both at rising, and
 7    I|       trustier, travel with the sun,~Both those which in their
 8    I|         for oft we see~Upon the sun’s own face strange colours
 9    I|         tokens of all these~The sun will give thee. Who dare
10    I|       thee. Who dare charge the sun~With leasing? He it is who
11   II|        winters and o’erpowering sun,~Wild buffaloes and pestering
12   II|        and stars of heaven,~The sun’s eclipses and the labouring
13   II|   country seek~Beneath an alien sun. The husbandman~With hooked
14  III|     shake, and tire them in the sun,~What time the threshing-floor
15  III|          And feed them when the sun is newly risen,~Or the first
16  III|       thy rising, Eurus, or the sun’s,~But westward and north-west,
17  III|        s icy breath!~Nay, never sun disparts the shadows pale,~
18   IV|        wide wings to the summer sun,~If haply Eurus, swooping
19   IV|       more? When now the golden sun has put ~Winter to headlong
20   IV| themselves in vain.~I, when the sun has lit his noontide fires,~
21   IV|         close covert out of the sun’s eye~The youth she places,
22   IV|    heaven; his course~The fiery sun had half devoured: the blades~
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