Georgic

1   II|     tigers come not nigh, nor breed~Of savage lion, nor aconite
2   II|    land that reared a valiant breed of men,~The Marsi and Sabellian
3  III|     prized Olympian palm ~One breed the horse, or bullock strong
4  III|     of cattle to their loves,~Breed stock with stock, and keep
5  III| mettle, other points anon,~As breed and lineage, or what pain
6  III|       warlike wolf-kin or the breed of dogs?~Why tell how timorous
7  III|    promise, and extirpate the breed.~Well would he trow it who,
8   IV|  Symmetric: this the likelier breed; from these,~When heaven
9   IV|         Nor hath he whence to breed the race anew,~’Tis time