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2502 IV| vanquished of resolve,~He stopped, turned, looked upon Eurydice~ 2503 III| goats with arbute-leaves be stored,~And served with fresh spring-water, 2504 I| nightly task,~Know not the storm-sign, when in blazing crock~They 2505 III| keep~The new-born kids, and straightway bind their mouths~With iron-tipped 2506 III| the corn-seeds, and with strained neck~Oer the high uplands 2507 II| from the rafter-smoke,~And strainers of the winepress pluck thee 2508 IV| led by the shrill sweet strains~Of the Curetes and their 2509 IV| transformations, thou, my son,~More straitlier clench the clinging bands, 2510 III| hard earth under them with straw~And handfuls of the fern 2511 I| With scattering snout the straw-wisps. But the clouds~Seek more 2512 I| light stalks and flying straws.~Oft too comes looming vast 2513 I| own face strange colours stray;~Dark tells of rain, of 2514 II| access, then be fields~And stream-washed vales my solace, let me 2515 IV| And through the grass a streamlet hurrying run,~Some palm-tree 2516 II| Fruitless indeed, but blithe and strenuous spring,~Since Nature lurks 2517 IV| wave on wave~By the wind’s stress is driven, and breaks far 2518 II| and survives them all,~Stretching its titan arms and branches 2519 IV| him limb from limb,~And strewed his fragments over the wide 2520 II| oleaster, and the fields strewn wide~With woodland berries. 2521 II| soars toward heaven,~So deep strikes root into the vaults of 2522 IV| like shafts from quivering string~When Parthia’s flying hosts 2523 II| green grass~Fat kids are striving, horn to butting horn.~Himself 2524 IV| seeking his accustomed cave~Strode from the billows: round 2525 I| thrice, sooth to say, they strove~Ossa on Pelion’s top to 2526 III| slaughtering priest had struck,~Nor with its heaped entrails 2527 III| leg,~And be like one that struggleth; then at last~Challenge 2528 I| from us; even as who with struggling oars~Up stream scarce pulls 2529 IV| crag, by thy lone wave,~Strymon, he wept, and in the caverns 2530 I| soil,~Do greedy goose and Strymon-haunting cranes~And succory’s bitter 2531 II| trench;~One buries the bare stumps within his field,~Truncheons 2532 IV| echoing groves, he went, and, stunned by that~Stupendous whirl 2533 IV| went, and, stunned by that~Stupendous whirl of waters, separate 2534 II| trench and at great cost subdued.~But reared from truncheons 2535 III| nightly; pain more sharp~Subdues him: the shy deer and fleet-foot 2536 IV| these roam wide~Wasting all substance, or the bees themselves~ 2537 IV| true,~They make their cosy subterranean home,~And deeply lodged 2538 III| udders, and give back~A subtle taste of saltness in the 2539 III| change of fodder serves,~And subtlest cures but injure; then were 2540 III| mortals; in their place succeed~Disease and dolorous eld; 2541 III| of sire the mother’s care succeeds. ~When great with young 2542 I| Strymon-haunting cranes~And succory’s bitter fibres cease to 2543 II| self-impelled, nor crave~Our succour. All the grove meanwhile 2544 III| famed Achilles’ team: in such-like form~Great Saturn’s self 2545 I| conveys;~Or the huge bow sucks moisture; or a host~Of rooks 2546 IV| helpless hands.’ She spake, and suddenly,~Like smoke dissolving into 2547 IV| powers:~Bring gifts, and sue for pardon: they will grant~ 2548 IV| yet~Winter had ceased in sullen ire to rive~The rocks with 2549 III| blood was stained,~Scarce sullied with thin gore the surface-sand.~ 2550 III| black, reject him, lest~He sully with dark spots his offspring’ 2551 III| mix silver-scum~And native sulphur and Idaean pitch,~Wax mollified 2552 IV| a shower that pours from summer-clouds,~Forth burst they, or like 2553 II| chief,~Which howso far its summit soars toward heaven,~So 2554 II| tilth,~To whatso craft thou summon them, make speed~To follow. 2555 II| earliest frost,~Ere the swift sun-steeds touch the wintry Signs,~ 2556 IV| empty air,~Passed and was sundered from his sight; nor him~ 2557 III| felled; or how the scene~Sunders with shifted face, and Britain’ 2558 III| Amphrysian shepherd, worthy to be sung,~You, woods and waves Lycaean. 2559 III| murky sand-lees from their sunken bed.~Nay, every race on 2560 II| sheds Autumn, and high up~On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage 2561 III| leaving in his lair,~Towers sunward, lightening with three-forked 2562 III| mouth at times~Yield to the supple halter, even while yet~Weak, 2563 IV| loiterer of the flowers, nor supple-stemmed~Acanthus, with the praise 2564 III| stock, and keep the race supplied.~Ah! life’s best hours are 2565 I| by night;~For nights the suppling moisture never fails.~And 2566 IV| offspring in their mouths, alone~Supply new kings and pigmy commonwealth,~ 2567 III| task,~With patient neck support the Belgian car.~Then, broken 2568 II| forks to shape,~Whereby supported they may learn to mount,~ 2569 II| nor from the top~Of the supporting tree your suckers tear;~ 2570 I| rising, for ’tis that~Gives surest counsel, clear she ride 2571 III| Behind them, as to dint the surface-dust;~Then let the beechen axle 2572 III| powers~May not be dulled by surfeiting, nor choke~The sluggish 2573 IV| loathly sea-calvesneath the surge he feeds.~Him first, my 2574 IV| as ravening tide of fire~Surges, shut fast within the furnace-walls.~ 2575 IV| heart~A sudden mad desire surprised and seized-Meet fault to 2576 IV| and with murmuring throngs surround,~In crowds attend, oft shoulder 2577 II| s labour; hence, too, he sustains~Country and cottage homestead, 2578 IV| there lies the unlovely swamp~Of dull dead water, and, 2579 II| water feeds the snow-white swan:~There nor clear springs 2580 IV| that flood~Which from the swart-skinned Aethiop bears him down,~ 2581 IV| places, and herself the while~Swathed in a shadowy mist stands 2582 I| darnel and wild oats have sway.~Wherefore, unless thou 2583 IV| Athwart the doorway hangs her swaying net.~The more impoverished 2584 I| Bakes every blemish out, and sweats away~Each useless humour, 2585 III| flies,~With instant pinion sweeping earth and main.~A steed 2586 I| headlong force~The current sweeps him down the hurrying tide.~ 2587 III| browsing herds~The dew tastes sweetest on the tender sward.~When 2588 IV| must you bring~The savoury sweets I bid, and sprinkle them,~ 2589 II| groves;~In Spring earth swells and claims the fruitful 2590 I| through all the plain are swept~Beasts and their stalls 2591 IV| Aethiop bears him down,~Swift-parted into sevenfold branching 2592 II| strength,~To heaven climb swiftly, self-impelled, nor crave~ 2593 IV| and dark sleep~Closes my swimming eyes. And now farewell:~ 2594 III| blindest midnight how he swims the gulf~Convulsed with 2595 II| puppet-faces on tall pines to swing.~Hence every vineyard teems 2596 III| but the depths~Upseethe in swirling eddies, and disgorge~The 2597 II| Bumastus, with plump clusters swollen.~But lo! how many kinds, 2598 II| but chiefly if a storm has swooped~Down on the forest, and 2599 IV| summer sun,~If haply Eurus, swooping as they pause,~Have dashed 2600 IV| gainst the unequal foe~Swoops the fierce hornet, or the 2601 I| Typhoeus fell,~And those sworn brethren banded to break 2602 II| cool,~Lowing of kine, and sylvan slumbers soft,~They lack 2603 II| are Crustumian pears~And Syrian, and the heavy hand-fillers.~ 2604 I| wheel~On sloping plane the system of the Signs.~And as toward 2605 II| clothe~With olives huge Tabernus! And be thou~At hand, and 2606 IV| sang.~Nay to the jaws of Taenarus too he came,~Of Dis the 2607 III| ulcer’s mouth ope: for the taint is fed~And quickened by 2608 IV| my vines, if there hath taken the~Such loathing of my 2609 IV| perfected.~He too transplanted tall-grown elms a-row,~Time-toughened 2610 III| liker bull-faced she,~And tall-limbed wholly, and with tip of 2611 II| all the trees are set,~May tally to perfection. Even as oft~ 2612 I| Before Jove~Fields knew no taming hand of husbandmen;~To mark 2613 III| their bellowing din,~And Tanager’s dry bed and forest-banks.~ 2614 IV| his soul:~By snow-bound Tanais and the icy north,~Far steppes 2615 IV| prime source the story’s tangled thread,~And thence unravel. 2616 II| plants, then seek~Full-fed Tarentum’s glades and distant fields,~ 2617 III| fourth arrives,~Now let him tarry not to run the ring~With 2618 IV| between.~Nay, even the deep Tartarean Halls of death~Stood lost 2619 I| what thou wilt-For neither Tartarus hopes to call thee king,~ 2620 III| to browsing herds~The dew tastes sweetest on the tender sward.~ 2621 II| Eastern homes of Arabs, and tattooed~Geloni; to all trees their 2622 III| wrap~Their bodies in the tawny fells of beasts.~If wool 2623 IV| tigress, dragon scaled,~And tawny-tufted lioness, or send forth~A 2624 I| and the hardy spelt,~Thou tax the soil, to corn-ears wholly 2625 III| pail,~More copious soon the teat-pressed torrents flow.~Ay, and on 2626 I| hear~And help, O lord of Tegea! And thou, too,~Minerva, 2627 IV| From thy vale,~Peneian Tempe, turning, bee-bereft,~So 2628 II| Grottoes and living lakes, yet Tempes cool,~Lowing of kine, and 2629 IV| anchorage from of old~For tempest-taken mariners: therewithin,~Behind 2630 I| forebode we can~The coming tempests, hence both harvest-day~ 2631 I| windy main~Borne homeward tempt the Pontic, and the jaws~ 2632 III| rites, Lucina’s pangs,~Ere ten years ended, after four 2633 I| marry elm with vine; how tend the steer;~What pains for 2634 II| Which Lesbos from Methymna’s tendril plucks.~Vines Thasian are 2635 IV| king, even to his royal tent,~Throng rallying, and with 2636 I| asunder smote.~Seventh after tenth is lucky both to set~The 2637 III| a cruel load;~Soon with tents pitched and at his post 2638 III| name Asilus, by the Greeks~Termed Oestros— fierce it is, and 2639 I| Thule bow~Before thee, and Tethys win thee to her son~With 2640 I| earth meanwhile uneared and thankless left.~Oft, too, ’twill boot 2641 II| s tendril plucks.~Vines Thasian are there, Mareotids white,~ 2642 IV| honey, and heat resolves and thaws,~To bees alike disastrous; 2643 III| lineage, or what pain was theirs~To lose the race, what pride 2644 IV| yearning sore to speak,~Thenceforth beheld she, nor no second 2645 II| shells or porous stone, for therebetween~Will water trickle and fine 2646 | therein 2647 III| on the wheels made fast thereto. Meanwhile~For their unbroken 2648 II| The ploughshare aiding; therewithal thou’lt rear~The olive’s 2649 IV| tempest-taken mariners: therewithin,~Behind a rock’s huge barrier, 2650 II| therefore too~The sons of Theseus through the country-side-Hamlet 2651 I| shore~Do halcyons dear to Thetis ope their wings,~Nor filthy 2652 IV| pointed beaks and knit their thews,~And round the king, even 2653 I| seasons, her black pall~Thick-mantling fold on fold; or thitherward~ 2654 I| Wet with the south-wind, thickens what was rare,~And what 2655 III| song the shore,~And every thicket with the goldfinch rings.~ 2656 IV| rose-leaves dried, or must to thickness boiled~By a fierce fire, 2657 III| to watch,~Dread nightly thief afold and ravening wolves,~ 2658 II| neath the unctuous rind~Hid thief-like first, now grips the tough 2659 III| selection; but on those ~Thou thinkst to rear, the promise 2660 I| blight~Ate up the stalks, and thistle reared his spines~An idler 2661 I| Thick-mantling fold on fold; or thitherward~From us returning Dawn brings 2662 II| churlish hill-sides, where are thorny fields~Of meagre marl and 2663 I| Splitting the surface, then a thousand plagues~Make sport of it: 2664 IV| land that bowed to Rhesus, Thrace no less~With Hebrusstream; 2665 I| and makes the field his thrall.~Pray for wet summers and 2666 IV| source the story’s tangled thread,~And thence unravel. For 2667 III| sunward, lightening with three-forked tongue.~Of sickness, too, 2668 I| Of the Eleusinian mother, threshing-sleighs~And drags, and harrows with 2669 I| patient trial serves for thrifty bees;-~Such are my themes.~ 2670 III| Mark you what shivering thrills the horse’s frame,~If but 2671 I| counsel, clear she ride throheaven~With horns unblunted, 2672 IV| lofty fanes,~And from their throats let gush the victimsblood,~ 2673 IV| And how their hearts are throbbing for the strife;~Hark! the 2674 IV| better lord it on the empty throne.~One with gold-burnished 2675 IV| Aristaeus; on their glassy thrones~Amazement held them all; 2676 II| glebe arose,~And wild beasts thronged the woods, and stars the 2677 IV| his frame therewith~Steeps throughly; forth from his trim-combed 2678 II| olive, a mere stock,~Still thrusts its root out from the sapless 2679 I| dread of seamen, till far Thule bow~Before thee, and Tethys 2680 I| Leafy Olympus; thrice with thunderbolt~Their mountain-stair the 2681 I| the void river-beds swell thunderously,~And all the panting firths 2682 III| Over him~Heaven’s huge gate thunders; the rock-shattered main~ 2683 IV| sayest,~Apollo, lord of Thymbra, be my sire,~Sprung from 2684 IV| cassias and far-scented thymes,~And savory with its heavy-laden 2685 II| day will try the feet~And tie the tongue: purples and 2686 IV| next with narrow roof of tiles atop~‘Twixt prisoning walls 2687 III| should behold,~And Iapydian Timavusfields,~Ay, still behold 2688 IV| transplanted tall-grown elms a-row,~Time-toughened pear, thorns bursting with 2689 II| than which no aid~Comes timelier, when fierce step-dames 2690 I| swains, at once begin,~Grow timely used unto the voice of prayer.~ 2691 III| breed of dogs?~Why tell how timorous stags the battle join?~O’ 2692 IV| And wake and shake the tinkling cymbals heard~By the great 2693 IV| flush the meadows with new tints, and ere~The twittering 2694 III| tall-limbed wholly, and with tip of tail~Brushing her footsteps 2695 II| oiled skins~Dance in their tipsy frolic. Furthermore~The 2696 III| With running shake, and tire them in the sun,~What time 2697 III| light~Comes raging pale Tisiphone; she drives~Disease and 2698 II| them all,~Stretching its titan arms and branches far,~Sole 2699 IV| sang in saucy youth~Thee, Tityrus, ‘neath the spreading beech 2700 II| best-bodied wine,~To which the Tmolian bows him, ay, and king~Phanaeus 2701 I| grass unbidden. See how from Tmolus comes~The saffron’s fragrance, 2702 I| bed the purblind moles,~Or toad is found in hollows, and 2703 IV| form and bulk,~That browse today the green Lycaean heights,~ 2704 IV| themselves~Ravage their toil-wrought honey, and rend amain~Their 2705 II| ergrow the crop;~And each a toilsome labour. Do thou praise~Broad 2706 IV| uncertain tokens may be told-Forthwith the sick change hue; grim 2707 IV| With draught of water first toment thy lips,~And spread before 2708 I| thou regard,~Neer will tomorrow’s hour deceive thee, ne’ 2709 III| awful Pales, strike a louder tone. ~First, for the sheep soft 2710 II| whole,~Nay, though a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths~Were mine, 2711 III| Twas Ericthonius first took heart to yoke~Four horses 2712 I| first~Set mortals on with tools to turn the sod,~When now 2713 I| shaping with keen blade~The torches to a point; his wife the 2714 III| eyes~Are dulled with deadly torpor, and his neck~Sinks to the 2715 II| gaze~On pillars with fair tortoise-shell inwrought,~Gold-purfled 2716 IV| light craft ballast in the tossing tide,~Wherewith they poise 2717 III| halter, even while yet~Weak, tottering-limbed, and ignorant of life.~But, 2718 II| song of Ascra through the towns of Rome.~Now for the native 2719 I| side to left and right~Are traced the utmost twain, stiff 2720 II| dark~At times reveal its traces.~All these rules    ~Regarding, 2721 II| nor Panchaia, one wide tract~Of incense-teeming sand. 2722 II| Doth the scaled serpent trail his endless coils~Along 2723 IV| spread before thee fumes of trailing smoke.~Twice is the teeming 2724 I| through murky night~Long trails of fire white-glistening 2725 II| toil be spent, and all ~Trained to the trench and at great 2726 II| fresh~Spring-water mixed, be trampled to the full;~The moisture, 2727 III| tender care ~Is to the calves transferred; at once with marks~They 2728 IV| more he shifts~His endless transformations, thou, my son,~More straitlier 2729 IV| unforgetful of his ancient craft,~Transforms himself to every wondrous 2730 II| and eke whereto~Soon to translate them, lest the sudden shock~ 2731 II| should one engraft them, or transplant~To well-drilled trenches, 2732 IV| autumn perfected.~He too transplanted tall-grown elms a-row,~Time-toughened 2733 II| blank amaze;~One gaping sits transported by the cheers,~The answering 2734 I| Nathless by change~The travailing earth is lightened, but 2735 I| For signs, none trustier, travel with the sun,~Both those 2736 II| boundless space we have travelled oer; ~’Tis time our steaming 2737 I| hidden broils at hand and treachery,~And secret swelling of 2738 III| flocks and shaggy goats to treat.~Here lies a labour; hence 2739 II| first, now grips the tough tree-bole,~And mounting to the leaves 2740 IV| them, till at last~On yon tree-top together fused they cling,~ 2741 II| cleave the air~Above their tree-tops? yet no laggards they,~When 2742 IV| amain~Their own comb’s waxen trellis. He is the lord~Of all their 2743 I| darkness, till a godless age~Trembled for night eternal; at that 2744 III| out beneath the pole~Comes trending backward. There the herds 2745 I| or what proof~Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;-~ 2746 IV| hornet, or the moth’s fell tribe;~Or spider, victim of Minerva’ 2747 IV| ungiven.~Scorned by which tribute the Ciconian dames,~Amid 2748 IV| flowing stream.~But when no trickery found a path for flight,~ 2749 I| earth’s womb at thy great trident’s stroke,~Neptune; and haunter 2750 IV| peace~Inglorious, who erst trilled for shepherd-wights~The 2751 IV| throughly; forth from his trim-combed locks~Breathed effluence 2752 IV| Even Cerberus held his triple jaws agape,~And, the wind 2753 II| in thy sacred stream, the triumph-pomp~Of Romans to the temples 2754 I| That thou regardst the triumphs of mankind,~Here where the 2755 I| and long ago~Our blood thy Trojan perjuries hath paid,~Laomedon. 2756 IV| the hollow shades~Came trooping, ghostly semblances of forms~ 2757 III| backward-volleying darts,~And trophies torn with twice triumphant 2758 III| Jove-descended folk,~And father Tros, and Troy’s first founder, 2759 IV| forests sighs,~As when the troubled ocean hoarsely booms~With 2760 IV| burrowed holes, if fame be true,~They make their cosy subterranean 2761 III| poisonous juice,~By shepherds truly named hippomanes,~Hippomanes, 2762 III| armed rage, and brook~The trumpet, and long roar of rumbling 2763 I| thee signs;~For signs, none trustier, travel with the sun,~Both 2764 III| and the Parthian foe,~Who trusts in flight and backward-volleying 2765 II| and with rosemary;~Rough tufa and chalk too, by black 2766 III| far Maeotic wave,~Where turbid Ister whirls his yellow 2767 III| great Sabellian boar,~His tushes whets, with forefoot tears 2768 II| secret tell,~And with a harsh twang ruefully distort~The mouths 2769 I| rules his way~Through the twelve constellations of the world.~ 2770 IV| greenwood boughs for cover, when twilight-hour~Or storms of winter chase 2771 IV| livid locks of serpents twined;~Even Cerberus held his 2772 IV| uplift their sinewy arms,~Or twist the iron with the forceps’ 2773 III| flood,~Cocytus, and Ixion’s twisted snakes,~And that vast wheel 2774 IV| parsley, and how the gourd~Twists through the grass and rounds 2775 IV| with new tints, and ere~The twittering swallow buildeth from the 2776 IV| With fish-drawn chariot of two-footed steeds;~Now visits he his 2777 I| make sharp~The stakes and two-pronged forks, and willow-bands~ 2778 I| light~Coeus, Iapetus, and Typhoeus fell,~And those sworn brethren 2779 IV| broken the bond~Of that fell tyrant, and a crash was heard~Three 2780 III| The more each dry-wrung udder froths the pail,~More copious 2781 III| iron a man dare lance~The ulcer’s mouth ope: for the taint 2782 I| dripping sails.~Never at unawares did shower annoy:~Or, as 2783 I| Along the main; then iron’s unbending might,~And shrieking saw-blade,— 2784 I| growth of trees~And grass unbidden. See how from Tmolus comes~ 2785 I| thro’ heaven~With horns unblunted, then shall that whole day,~ 2786 IV| till night was late,~With unbought plenty heaped his board 2787 IV| heaven into the wintry wave.~Unbounded then their wrath; if hurt, 2788 III| fattening corn-mash, for, unbroke, they will~With pride wax 2789 III| thereto. Meanwhile~For their unbroken youth not grass alone,~Nor 2790 IV| For seven whole months unceasingly, men say,~Beneath a skyey 2791 III| try,~Red blisters and an unclean sweat o’erran~His noisome 2792 III| jaws: the conquering steed,~Uncrowned of effort and heedless of 2793 II| fallen, that, ‘neath the unctuous rind~Hid thief-like first, 2794 II| heaved and reared,~And rivers undergliding ancient walls.~Or should 2795 II| Happy, who had the skill to understand~Nature’s hid causes, and 2796 II| river-banks, and still~The undressed willow claims thy fostering 2797 I| gained,~Nor earth meanwhile uneared and thankless left.~Oft, 2798 I| by, if thee await~Not all unearned the country’s crown divine.~ 2799 IV| do-naught drone; or ‘gainst the unequal foe~Swoops the fierce hornet, 2800 IV| from the nest has torn unfledged, but she~Wails the long 2801 IV| after me.~Come, then, I will unfold the natural powers ~Great 2802 IV| approach them will I first unfold-Four chosen bulls of peerless 2803 II| into bud, and every leaf unfolds.~Even so, methinks, when 2804 IV| fetters; he nathless,~All unforgetful of his ancient craft,~Transforms 2805 III| And time it is that oft~Unfreighted wheels be drawn along the 2806 I| amid the corn-fields trim~Unfruitful darnel and wild oats have 2807 IV| Lamenting, and the gifts of Dis ungiven.~Scorned by which tribute 2808 IV| tis Orpheusself,~Orpheus unhappy by no fault of his,~So fates 2809 III| groans. Sad goes the swain,~Unhooks the steer that mourns his 2810 I| Such are my themes.~O universal lights    ~Most glorious! 2811 I| war~Rages through all the universe; as when~The four-horse 2812 | unless 2813 II| increase, and the fields~Unlock their bosoms to the warm 2814 IV| Cocytus winds; there lies the unlovely swamp~Of dull dead water, 2815 III| take their fill;~And oft unmated, marvellous to tell,~But 2816 I| When old Deucalion on the unpeopled earth~Cast stones, whence 2817 III| hoar-frost, or when sweat~Unpurged cleaves to them after shearing 2818 IV| gone;~But not Cyrene, who unquestioned thus~Bespake the trembling 2819 IV| tangled thread,~And thence unravel. For where thy happy folk,~ 2820 IV| and in the caverns chill~Unrolled his story, melting tigers’ 2821 IV| obeisance: lives the king unscathed,~One will inspires the million: 2822 IV| comb the newt has gnawed unseen,~And the light-loathing 2823 II| showers~Wrench from its bed; unshaken it abides,~Sees many a generation, 2824 I| all the swarm~Of earth’s unsightly creatures; or a huge~Corn-heap 2825 I| ye who nurse~The tender unsown increase, and from heaven~ 2826 III| Dryad-haunted woods and lawns~Unsullied seek we; ’tis thy hard behest,~ 2827 II| called-Barren for fruits, by tilth untamable,~Nor grape her kind, nor 2828 III| And far and wide the lawns untenanted.~Here from distempered heavens 2829 III| hurls him headlong on the unthinking foe:~As in mid ocean when 2830 III| Too soon to die on his untimely pyre.~What of the spotted 2831 II| hoar-frosts, and the delver’s toil~Untiring, as he stirs the loosened 2832 I| of giants from the trench untombed.~Gods of my country, heroes 2833 III| are turned; and on their untrimmed beards~Stiff clings the 2834 II| With cassia tainted; yet untroubled calm,~A life that knows 2835 II| now art fending far~The unwarlike Indian from the heights 2836 IV| cells,~Leaving the hive unwarmed, from such vain play~Must 2837 III| dire contagion through the unwary herd.~Less thick and fast 2838 IV| with life’s service, boys, unwedded girls,~Youths placed on 2839 III| shipwrecked bodies: seals, unwonted there,~Flee to the rivers. 2840 II| time our steaming horses to unyoke.~ 2841 I| heap,~Aye, and on Ossa to up-roll amain~Leafy Olympus; thrice 2842 III| and north-west, or whence up-springs~Black Auster, that glooms 2843 III| answer yield;~Nay, scarce the up-stabbing knife with blood was stained,~ 2844 I| shrines, and bronzes sweat.~Up-twirling forests with his eddying 2845 III| the ground,~And arch the upgathered footsteps of his pride.~ 2846 III| strained neck~Oer the high uplands drag the creaking wains.~ 2847 IV| goblets; with Panchaian fires~Upleap the altars; then the mother 2848 IV| time~With giant strength uplift their sinewy arms,~Or twist 2849 III| Dense is his mane, that when uplifted falls~On his right shoulder; 2850 IV| when Taygete the Pleiad uplifts~Her comely forehead for 2851 III| that in Calabrian glades~Uprears his breast, and wreathes 2852 III| his woodland wallowing-den uprouse~The boar, and scare him 2853 III| mountain: but the depths~Upseethe in swirling eddies, and 2854 II| its mother’s mighty shade upshoots~The bay-tree of Parnassus. 2855 II| timebehold!~To heaven upshot with teeming boughs, the 2856 I| fields; the crops die down;~Upsprings instead a shaggy growth 2857 I| rise~With shallower trench uptilt it— ’twill suffice;~There, 2858 II| idle, and from the roots~Uptorn the immemorial haunt of 2859 I| the soil, let sturdy bulls~Upturn it from the year’s first 2860 II| Psithian for raisin-wine more useful, thin~Lageos, that one day 2861 III| will.~Those that to rustic uses thou wouldst mould,~As calves 2862 III| Or the first stars are ushering in the night.~But, yeaning 2863 III| the rock-shattered main~Utters a warning cry; nor parents’ 2864 III| Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song,~Are now 2865 III| low~That cowering crest is vailed in flight, the while,~His 2866 II| abundantly.~A land that reared a valiant breed of men,~The Marsi 2867 IV| drops anon~Dissolve and vanish. But the more he shifts~ 2868 II| lurk in. That again,~Which vapoury mist and flitting smoke 2869 II| vintage high with brimming vats;~Hither, O Father of the 2870 IV| and wide ocean, and the vault of heaven -~From whom flocks, 2871 II| deep strikes root into the vaults of hell.~It therefore neither 2872 I| when his bright head he veiled~In iron-hued darkness, till 2873 IV| wrath; if hurt, they breathe~Venom into their bite, cleave 2874 I| black serpents gave their venom-bane,~And bade the wolf go prowl, 2875 II| scathe it, as the flocks with venom-bite~Of their hard tooth, whose 2876 III| is the rage of mares,~By Venusself inspired of old, what 2877 I| sow the plain~Even to the verge of tameless winter’s showers~ 2878 II| Not that I~With my poor verse would comprehend the whole,~ 2879 IV| all round~White lilies, vervains, and lean poppy set,~In 2880 I| that hour with them~Red Vesper ‘gins to trim his his ‘lated 2881 IV| s end,~Eager to turn my vessel’s prow to shore,~Perchance 2882 III| erewhile to ships;~Brass vessels oft asunder burst, and clothes~ 2883 II| coast that skirts~Thy ridge, Vesuvius, and the Clanian flood,~ 2884 I| with empty ears.~But if the vetch and common kidney-bean~Thou’ 2885 I| pod,~Pulse, or the slender vetch-crop, thou hast cleared,~And 2886 II| archives of the people. Others vex~The darksome gulfs of Ocean 2887 II| but still the ground~Must vexed be, the dust be stirred, 2888 III| whose horn~At times hath vice in’t: liker bull-faced she,~ 2889 II| And airy summits reigns victoriously,~Wraps all the grove in 2890 III| above~The whirling wheels to victory: but the ring~And bridle-reins, 2891 IV| For some~Watch oer the victualling of the hive, and these~By 2892 II| wherewith not a grape can vie~For gush of wine-juice or 2893 III| lingering spires.~Then that vile worm that in Calabrian glades~ 2894 I| then, alack I will yield~Vine-leaf to ripening grapes; so thick 2895 II| first to house~Again your vine-poles, last to gather fruit.~Twice 2896 II| safely trust them now;~The vine-shoot, fearless of the rising 2897 II| thy hand; for thee~With viny autumn laden blooms the 2898 IV| of purple shines through violet gloom.~With chaplets woven 2899 IV| breath~Bloom round about, and violet-beds hard by~Sip sweetness from 2900 IV| the heights of heaven.~I Virgil then, of sweet Parthenope~ 2901 III| on leaves~They fare, and virgin grasses, and their cups~ 2902 IV| grim leanness mars~Their visage; then from out the cells 2903 I| again~And tender brood to visit. Not, I deem,~That heaven 2904 IV| of two-footed steeds;~Now visits he his native home once 2905 IV| play~Must you refrain their volatile desires,~Nor hard the task: 2906 II| Ligurian, and with these~The Volscian javelin-armed, the Decii 2907 III| stubborn share,~The bull drops, vomiting foam-dabbled gore,~And heaves 2908 II| portal-proud~From all its chambers vomits forth a tide~Of morning 2909 IV| by force~No rede will he vouchsafe, nor shalt thou bend~His 2910 I| Shall sailors pay their vows to Panope,~Glaucus, and 2911 I| shower, and woods and coasts~Wail fitfully beneath the mighty 2912 IV| to their proudest peaks:~Wailed for her fate the heights 2913 IV| torn unfledged, but she~Wails the long night, and perched 2914 III| seven-starred Hyperborean wain~The folk live tameless, 2915 I| the runnel; down it falls,~Waking hoarse murmurs oer the 2916 III| Parnassian steep; I love~To walk the heights, from whence 2917 II| fairest, and with circling wall~Clasped to her single breast 2918 IV| the town, and build the walled combs,~And mould the cunning 2919 III| to and fro~Hardens each wallowing shoulder to the wound.~What 2920 III| doe;~Oft from his woodland wallowing-den uprouse~The boar, and scare 2921 I| Mark too, what time the walnut in the woods ~With ample 2922 II| But the rough arbutus with walnut-fruit~Is grafted; so have barren 2923 II| Poplar, and willows in wan companies~With green leaf 2924 II| reeds and shafts of whittled wand,~And ashen poles and sturdy 2925 IV| Rhipaean forever wed,~Alone he wandered, lost Eurydice~Lamenting, 2926 I| through what heavenly cycles wandereth~The glowing orb Cyllenian. 2927 II| late-born generations; apples wane~Forgetful of their former 2928 II| dubious ‘twixt the hosts~The war-god wavers; so let all be ranged~ 2929 II| Myrtle stout spear-shafts, war-tried cornel too;~Yews into Ituraean 2930 IV| Where at her feet kept ward upon the bank~In the tall 2931 IV| nectar sweet.~Some, too, the wardship of the gates befalls,~Who 2932 I| Then first the streams were ware~Of hollowed alder-hulls: 2933 III| ounce to Bacchus dear,~Or warlike wolf-kin or the breed of 2934 II| A glance will serve to warn thee which is black,~Or 2935 IV| know,~And in the summer, warned of coming cold,~Make proof 2936 I| With leasing? He it is who warneth oft~Of hidden broils at 2937 III| rock-shattered main~Utters a warning cry; nor parents’ tears~ 2938 I| all himself~Ordained what warnings in her monthly round~The 2939 III| s first task~To face the warrior’s armed rage, and brook~ 2940 I| the right is wrong,~Where wars abound so many, and myriad-faced~ 2941 III| That rend and whirl and wash the hills away.~Then speeds 2942 III| shore’s confine the wave washes up,~Like shipwrecked bodies: 2943 III| sight of her, the female wastes~His strength with smouldering 2944 IV| hands. For these roam wide~Wasting all substance, or the bees 2945 I| one will sit the long late watches out~By winter fire-light, 2946 I| the night-owl for naught~Watching the sunset plies her ‘lated 2947 II| bear alike. ~Willows by water-courses have their birth,~Alders 2948 III| green plain fast by the water-side,~Where Mincius winds more 2949 IV| the tall grass a monstrous water-snake.~But with their cries the 2950 IV| blasts drive, some dip i’ the water-trough~The sputtering metal: with 2951 II| twixt the hosts~The war-god wavers; so let all be ranged~In 2952 IV| Bruised balsam and the wax-flower’s lowly weed,~And wake and 2953 III| fitful sweat, a sweat that waxes cold~Upon the dying beast; 2954 I| pitying, even as I,~These poor way-wildered swains, at once begin,~Grow 2955 IV| and loathly, as when the wayfarer~Scapes from a whirl of dust, 2956 III| supple halter, even while yet~Weak, tottering-limbed, and ignorant 2957 I| ivory from Ind,~From Saba’s weakling sons their frankincense,~ 2958 III| learn to dare, when first~Weaned from his mother, and his 2959 III| clothes~Stiffen upon the wearers; juicy wines~They cleave 2960 IV| cells up, tier on tier,~And weave their granaries from the 2961 III| disease, nor touch the putrid webs;~But, had one dared the 2962 IV| to frost Rhipaean forever wed,~Alone he wandered, lost 2963 II| luckless Mantua lost~Whose weedy water feeds the snow-white 2964 I| earth yawns asunder, ivory weeps~For sorrow in the shrines, 2965 I| or a huge~Corn-heap the weevil plunders, and the ant,~Fearful 2966 IV| Brief out-goings, and oft weigh-up tiny stones,~As light craft 2967 II| none persuade thee, howso weighty-wise, ~To stir the soil when 2968 IV| green,~That whole domain its welfare’s hope secure~Rests on this 2969 II| rear~The olive’s fatness well-beloved of Peace.~Apples, moreover, 2970 II| engraft them, or transplant~To well-drilled trenches, will anon put 2971 IV| realms of upper air~Had well-nigh won, behind him following-So 2972 III| brake with song,~Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,~ 2973 II| field~More wains thou’lt see wend home with plodding steers;~ 2974 IV| pools~And echoing groves, he went, and, stunned by that~Stupendous 2975 II| a welcome.~For the rest, whateer    ~The sets thou plantest 2976 II| and, by frequent tilth,~To whatso craft thou summon them, 2977 I| Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear,~And mingled with the grape, 2978 II| the farmers shave their wheel-spokes, hence~Drums for their wains, 2979 III| plain~Prowls heedless of her whelps the lioness:~Nor monstrous 2980 II| Even as oft~In mighty war, whenas the legion’s length~Deploys 2981 IV| thee.” There he ceased.~Whereat the seer, by stubborn force 2982 III| hoof: low droop his ears, wherefrom~Bursts fitful sweat, a sweat 2983 | Wherein 2984 I| zones the heavens contain; whereof is one~Aye red with flashing 2985 I| purple lock~Pays dear; for whereso, as she flies, her wings~ 2986 II| nursery for the trees, and eke whereto~Soon to translate them, 2987 IV| own~Skim in their painted wherries; where, hard by,~The quivered 2988 I| rouse~The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men~With care 2989 III| Molossian feed~On fattening whey. Never, with these to watch,~ 2990 III| corn-ears, and light chaff~Is whirled on high to catch the rising 2991 III| Less thick and fast the whirlwind scours the main~With tempest 2992 I| implacable,~Nisus with mighty whirr through heaven pursues;~ 2993 I| steaming vapour?~But no whit the more    ~For all expedients 2994 I| night~Long trails of fire white-glistening in their wake,~Or light 2995 III| a wave far of~Begins to whiten, mustering from the main~ 2996 II| mountain-ash with pear-bloom whitened oer,~And swine crunched 2997 II| from Ephyre;~Nor is the whiteness of their wool distained~ 2998 II| smooth reeds and shafts of whittled wand,~And ashen poles and 2999 I| the briars,~And plunge in wholesome stream the bleating flock.~ 3000 I| crushing weight;~Then the cheap wicker-ware of Celeus old,~Hurdles of 3001 III| Nor monstrous bears such wide-spread havoc-doom~Deal through


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