Georgic

 1    I|      of her times,~Binding thy mother’s myrtle round thy brow,~
 2    I|        Proserpine not heed~Her mother’s voice entreating to return-Vouchsafe
 3    I|        wains~Of the Eleusinian mother, threshing-sleighs~And drags,
 4    I|     the soil,~And Romulus, and Mother Vesta, thou~Who Tuscan Tiber
 5   II|       pigmy plant,~Beneath its mother’s mighty shade upshoots~
 6   II|         land of Saturn, mighty mother thou~Of fruits and heroes; ’
 7   II|    sudden shock~From their new mother the young plants estrange.~
 8  III| entertain.~To care of sire the mother’s care succeeds. ~When great
 9  III|     when first~Weaned from his mother, and his mouth at times~
10   IV|     cymbals heard~By the great Mother: on the anointed spots~Themselves
11   IV|      her that bare him cried:~“Mother, Cyrene, mother, who hast
12   IV|        cried:~“Mother, Cyrene, mother, who hast thy home~Beneath
13   IV|        in the river-deeps,~His mother heard: around her spun the
14   IV|        once again~Smote on his mother’s ears the mournful plaint~
15   IV|   bring him to our sight,” the mother cried;~“His feet may tread
16   IV|        Of wonder gazing on his mother’s hall~And watery kingdom
17   IV|    Upleap the altars; then the mother spake,~“Take beakers of
18   IV|       hies him forth to do~His mother’s bidding: to the shrine
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