Georgic

 1    I| coat of slime~Holds all the country, whence the hollow dykes~
 2    I|  await~Not all unearned the country’s crown divine.~While yet
 3    I| trench untombed.~Gods of my country, heroes of the soil,~And
 4   II|   For exile changing, a new country seek~Beneath an alien sun.
 5   II|     hence, too, he sustains~Country and cottage homestead, and
 6  III|   me, as I pass~To mine own country from the Aonian height;~
 7  III|   As some keen Roman in his country’s arms~Plies the swift march
 8  III|      say they, through that country side~For Juno’s rites were
 9   IV|   they alone fixed home and country know,~And in the summer,
10   IV|     full-grown young,~Their country’s hope, and others press
11   IV| There is a meadow-flower by country folk~Hight star-wort; ’tis
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