Georgic

 1    I|     tree~His troughs, or on the cattle stamps a brand,~Or numbers
 2    I| herdsman seeing~Should keep his cattle closer to their stalls.~
 3    I|    feathered choirs afield,~The cattle’s exultation, and the rooks’~
 4    I|          To trees and crops and cattle bringing bane.~Or when at
 5    I|     upon the dusk of night,~And cattle spake, portentous! streams
 6   II|    reeking entrails. If to rear~Cattle delight thee rather, steers,
 7   II|         thy tilth prove kind~To cattle, and patient of the curved
 8   II|         the land,~More meet for cattle and for kindly vines;~But
 9   II|        even and lowly brooms~To cattle their green leaves, to shepherds
10   II|         from hence~His herds of cattle and deserving steers.~No
11  III|     first~To speed thy herds of cattle to their loves,~Breed stock
12  III|        chill of ice such tender cattle harm~With scab and loathly
13  III|        They house in? Oft their cattle day and night~Graze the
14  III|   filled with falling snow;~The cattle perish: oxen’s mighty frames~
15  III|       shower~Its bane among the cattle, hugs the ground,~Fell scourge
16  III|       than swarm the plagues~Of cattle; nor seize they single lives
17  III|      side~For Juno’s rites were cattle far to seek,~And ill-matched
18   IV|     When the blades thirst, and cattle love the shade,~Myself will