Georgic

 1   II| wine-infuriate Centaurs quelled with death,~Rhoetus and Pholus, and
 2   II|           feet~All terrors cast, and death’s relentless doom,~And the
 3  III|           eld; till travail sore~And death unpitying sweep them from
 4  III|            Nor simple was the way of death, but when~Hot thirst through
 5  III|          with frenzy’s fire,~Even at death’s pinch— the gods some happier
 6   IV|            the worser seeming, do to death,~Lest royal waste wax burdensome,
 7   IV|          showering wounds a glorious death.~Led by these tokens, and
 8   IV|              by dissolution, nor can death~Find place: but, each into
 9   IV|               and done with blows to death,~Batter his flesh to pulp
10   IV|           stream, saw not the coming death,~Where at her feet kept
11   IV|              deep Tartarean Halls of death~Stood lost in wonderment,
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