Georgic

 1    I|     rank assigns ~The days for labour lucky: fly the fifth;~Then
 2    I| Eumenides;~Earth then in awful labour brought to light~Coeus,
 3    I|    wife the while,~Her tedious labour soothing with a song,~Speeds
 4    I|      smiling crops,~The oxen’s labour: now the dikes fill fast,~
 5   II|      crop;~And each a toilsome labour. Do thou praise~Broad acres,
 6   II|   haunts are there,~A youth of labour patient, need-inured,~Worship,
 7   II|       hence~Springs his year’s labour; hence, too, he sustains~
 8  III| strength~Not fail him for that labour of delight,~Nor puny colts
 9  III|    goats to treat.~Here lies a labour; hence for glory look,~Brave
10  III|      fellow’s fate,~And in mid labour leaves the plough-gear fast.~
11   IV| heights,~Each in his sphere to labour. The old have charge~To
12   IV|    love,~Nor know the pangs of labour, but alone~From leaves and
13   IV|       is the lord~Of all their labour; him with awful eye~They
14   IV|         Poured out was all his labour, broken the bond~Of that
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