Georgic

 1   II| tree-mother’s towering leaves and boughs~Darken, despoil of increase
 2   II|        crunched acorns ‘neath the boughs of elms.~Nor is the method
 3   II|        heaven upshot with teeming boughs, the tree~Strange leaves
 4   II|         to all alike, nor yet the boughs~Have power to stretch them
 5   II|         then coursing through the boughs~And airy summits reigns
 6   II|         the leaves off, prune the boughs;~Sooner they shrink from
 7   II|            And shield me with his boughs’ o’ershadowing might!~Happy,
 8   II|         that hath. What fruit the boughs,~And what the fields, of
 9   IV|          ribs they scatter broken boughs,~With thyme and fresh-pulled
10   IV|          myriads hie~To greenwood boughs for cover, when twilight-hour~
11   IV|          cluster from the bending boughs.~So sang I of the tilth