Georgic

 1    I|     struggling oars~Up stream scarce pulls a shallop, if he chance~
 2    I| murmur multitudinous. By this~Scarce can the billow spare the
 3   II|   starved hill-country gravel scarce serves the bees~With lowly
 4  III|        like a reinless thing,~Scarce print his footsteps on the
 5  III|     with plump udders clogged~Scarce cross the threshold. Wherefore
 6  III|      strange weight benumbed,~Scarce top the surface with their
 7  III|      could answer yield;~Nay, scarce the up-stabbing knife with
 8  III|       with blood was stained,~Scarce sullied with thin gore the
 9   IV|       fold,~No art neglected, scarce had fashioned forth,~Even
10   IV|    the foe within his clutch,~Scarce suffering him compose his