Georgic

 1    I|  curved plough;~And, bearing a young cypress root-uptorn,~Silvanus,
 2    I|      night, or when the sun is young,~And Dawn bedews the world.
 3    I|     thrice for luck~Around the young corn let the victim go,~
 4   II|        with thee,~The forest’s young plantations and the fruit~
 5   II|      From their new mother the young plants estrange.~Nay, even
 6   II|       the fields, nor lets~The young plant fix its frozen root
 7   II|      chiefly while the leaf is young~And witless of disaster;
 8   II|       oerflows with fruit,~Or young of kine, or Cereswheaten
 9  III|        tale been told of Hylas young,~Latonian Delos and Hippodame,~
10  III|   still; with yearly choice of young~Preventing losses, lest
11  III|  arduous, and for each~A horse young, fiery, swift of foot, they
12  III|     succeeds. ~When great with young they wander nigh their time,~
13  III|    fullness on their own sweet young.~But if fierce squadrons
14  III|     meadows, while the dawn is young,~The grass yet hoary, and
15   IV| new-made chiefs~Lead forth the young swarms, and, escaped their
16   IV|     task should ply,~Plant the young slips, or shed the genial
17   IV|      lead forth the full-grown young,~Their country’s hope, and
18   IV|    havoc of my crops;~Burn the young plants, and wield the stubborn
19   IV|    nightingale~Mourns her lost young, which some relentless swain,~
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