Georgic

 1    I|   root-uptorn,~Silvanus, and Gods all and Goddesses,~Who make
 2    I|      twain there lie,~By the Gods’ grace to heart-sick mortals
 3    I|       Before all~Worship the Gods, and to great Ceres pay~
 4    I|     battle, nor did the high gods deem it hard~That twice
 5    I|    from the trench untombed.~Gods of my country, heroes of
 6   II|  vine of Rhodes,~Welcomed by gods and at the second board,~
 7   II| Romans to the temples of the gods.~Here blooms perpetual spring,
 8   II|    is he who knows the rural gods,~Pan, old Silvanus, and
 9  III|   Even at death’s pinch— the gods some happier fate~Deal to
10   IV|     my sire,~Sprung from the Gods’ high line, why barest thou
11   IV|    jostling love-joys of the Gods.~Charmed by whose lay, the
12   IV|  tread the threshold even of Gods.”~So saying, she bids the