Georgic

 1    I| care, both ye who nurse~The tender unsown increase, and from
 2    I|   There earth is green with tender growth of trees~And grass
 3    I|     Their life-juice to the tender blades may win;~Or that
 4    I|  dust hillocks, then on the tender corn~Lets in the flood,
 5    I|     the stalk, while yet in tender blade~Feeds down the crop’
 6    I|   own loved nests again~And tender brood to visit. Not, I deem,~
 7   II|    sliving suckers from the tender frame~Of the tree-mother,
 8   II|      Or goats that kill the tender plants, then seek~Full-fed
 9  III|   rims his margent with the tender reed.~Amid my shrine shall
10  III|    yeaning ended, all their tender care ~Is to the calves transferred;
11  III|      Lest chill of ice such tender cattle harm~With scab and
12  III|  dew tastes sweetest on the tender sward.~When heaven’s fourth