Georgic

 1    I|         too,~Minerva, from whose hand the olive sprung;~And boy-discoverer
 2    I|        such the laws by Nature’s hand imposed~On clime and clime,
 3    I|       Jove~Fields knew no taming hand of husbandmen;~To mark the
 4    I|  levelled smooth,~And wrought by hand, and fixed with binding
 5    I|        did not man~Put forth his hand with power, and year by
 6    I|       the clouds~Wields with red hand the levin; through all her
 7    I|          oft~Of hidden broils at hand and treachery,~And secret
 8   II|         with the bounties of thy hand; for thee~With viny autumn
 9   II|     force spontaneous spring,~No hand of man compelling, and possess~
10   II|    others, nor doth the pruner’s hand~Shrink to restore the topmost
11   II|         Tabernus! And be thou~At hand, and with me ply the voyage
12   II|        voice of iron; be thou at hand,~Skirt but the nearer coast-line;
13   II|        on this wise: tossed from hand to hand~Yet cracks it never,
14   II|        wise: tossed from hand to hand~Yet cracks it never, but
15  III|       torn with twice triumphant hand~From empires twain on ocean’
16  III|           But corn-ears with thy hand pluck from the crops.~Nor
17  III|         voice~Caressing, or loud hand that claps his neck.~Ay,
18  III|           Butcher them, knife in hand, and so dispatch~Loud-bellowing,
19  III| confinement; while the swain~His hand of healing from the wound
20   IV|       belts about their home;~No hand but his the blistering task
21   IV|       hast gripped him fast with hand and gyve,~Then divers forms
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