Georgic

 1    I|        heed we to forelearn~The winds and varying temper of the
 2    I|         heats, and showers, and winds~That bring the frost, the
 3    I|       stalls.~No sooner are the winds at point to rise,~Than either
 4    I|     Dark tells of rain, of east winds fiery-red;~If spots with
 5   II|         crumbling are the best: winds look to that,~And bitter
 6   II|         bosoms to the warm west winds;~Soft moisture spreads o’
 7   II|   rising south,~Or mighty north winds driving rain from heaven,~
 8  III|       water-side,~Where Mincius winds more vast in lazy coils,~
 9  III|      then at last~Challenge the winds to race him, and at speed~
10  III|        fend them and from snowy winds;~Bring food and feast them
11  III| glittering youth transformed he winds his spires,~And eggs or
12   IV|      sure abode, ~Where neither winds can enter (winds blow back~
13   IV|        neither winds can enter (winds blow back~The foragers with
14   IV|         like to fall, nor, east winds nigh,~Confide in heaven,
15   IV|        add hereto~From the four winds four slanting window-slits.~
16   IV|        done~When first the west winds bid the waters flow,~Ere
17   IV|       and hideous weed,~Cocytus winds; there lies the unlovely
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