Georgic

 1    I|      time in treacherous moons a stream~Goes out in spate, and with
 2    I|      hand-net scourges the broad stream,~Probing its depths, one
 3    I|          with struggling oars~Up stream scarce pulls a shallop,
 4    I|          And plunge in wholesome stream the bleating flock.~Oft
 5   II|        led,~Bathed in thy sacred stream, the triumph-pomp~Of Romans
 6  III| ice-crusts curdle on the running stream,~And iron-hooped wheels
 7   IV|       fearful beast, and flowing stream.~But when no trickery found
 8   IV|        thy hot pursuit~Along the stream, saw not the coming death,~
 9   IV|      Thrace no less~With Hebrusstream; and Orithyia wept,~Daughter
10   IV|       then, what time the Hebrus stream,~Oeagrian Hebrus, down mid-current
11   IV|         the banks~From the broad stream caught up ‘Eurydice!’”~So
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