Georgic

1    I| Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing.~And thou, for whose delight
2   II|        stars of heaven;~Now will I sing thee, Bacchus, and, with
3   II|          surging like the main?~Or sing her harbours, and the barrier
4   II|            old art and glory, as I sing~The song of Ascra through
5   II|            to Bacchus duly will we sing~Meet honour with ancestral
6  III|          why the tale pursue? ~Why sing their pastures and the scattered
7   IV|           pass before you, while I sing.~Slight though the poet’
8   IV|          to shore,~Perchance would sing what careful husbandry~Makes
9   IV|            And leave for others to sing after me.~Come, then, I