Georgic

 1    I|      since the primal dawn~When old Deucalion on the unpeopled
 2    I|      saw-blade,— for the men of old~With wedges wont to cleave
 3    I|     cheap wicker-ware of Celeus old,~Hurdles of arbute, and
 4    I|      the precepts of the men of old ~I can recount thee, so
 5    I|        and chant their dirge of old.~Oft, too, the ant from
 6   II|         Deemed by the Greeks of old. With some sprouts forth~
 7   II|  fountains, and essay~Themes of old art and glory, as I sing~
 8   II|        goat at every altar, and old plays~Upon the stage find
 9   II|      knows the rural gods,~Pan, old Silvanus, and the sister-nymphs!~
10  III|    first birth-dawn of Tithonus old.~If eager for the prized
11  III|   inglorious age. A horse grown old~Slow kindling unto love
12  III|       scourge did Juno wreak of old~The terrors of her wrath,
13  III|         Venus’ self inspired of old, what time~The Potnian four
14   IV|        the yellowing fields,~An old man once I mind me to have
15   IV|         on the bees, that haunt old Cecrops’ heights,~Each in
16   IV|       his sphere to labour. The old have charge~To keep the
17   IV|         commonwealth,~And their old court and waxen realm repair.~
18   IV|    sweet rapine, and from Chaos old~Counted the jostling love-joys
19   IV|       reverence, ay, and Nereus old;~For all things knows the
20   IV|   Myself will guide thee to the old man’s haunt,~Whither he
21   IV|          safe anchorage from of old~For tempest-taken mariners:
22   IV| Orithyia wept,~Daughter of Acte old. But Orpheusself,~Soothing
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