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3002 IV| Burn the young plants, and wield the stubborn axe~Against 3003 IV| of Hellespont,~Priapus, wielder of the willow-scythe,~Safe 3004 I| in midnight of the clouds~Wields with red hand the levin; 3005 IV| fetters; against these~His wiles will break and spend themselves 3006 IV| time hath yet to bring;~So willed it Neptune, whose portentous 3007 IV| Euphrates, and bare rule oer willing folk~Though vanquished, 3008 I| and two-pronged forks, and willow-bands~Amerian for the bending 3009 IV| whether swift or still,~Cast willow-branches and big stones enow,~Bridge 3010 IV| Priapus, wielder of the willow-scythe,~Safe in his keeping hold 3011 III| steps to tame,~While pliant wills and plastic youth allow.~ 3012 I| of heaven: be what thou wilt-For neither Tartarus hopes to 3013 I| spring from it,~Rainless and windless be, while safe ashore~Shall 3014 IV| four winds four slanting window-slits.~Then seek they from the 3015 III| barm and service sour the wine-cup mock.~So ‘neath the seven-starred 3016 II| crime hath prompted, he~The wine-infuriate Centaurs quelled with death,~ 3017 II| grape can vie~For gush of wine-juice or for length of years.~ 3018 II| rafter-smoke,~And strainers of the winepress pluck thee down;~Hereinto 3019 III| green Alburnus swarms a winged pest-Its Roman name Asilus, 3020 I| from the middle main~Come winging, and their shrieks are shoreward 3021 I| her wings~The light air winnow, lo! fierce, implacable,~ 3022 I| she flies, the light air winnowing still.~Soft then the voice 3023 I| there shall come~A mighty winnowing-time with mighty heat;~But if 3024 II| shed seed ariseth, upward wins~But slowly, yielding promise 3025 II| back upon themselves, why winter-suns~So haste to dipneath ocean, 3026 II| to hide them, and dig in withal~Rough shells or porous stone, 3027 III| of healing from the wound withholds,~Or sits for happier signs 3028 III| allow.~And first of slender withies round the throat~Loose collars 3029 II| while the leaf is young~And witless of disaster; for therewith,~ 3030 IV| the Peneian sire~Stands woebegone and weeping, and by name~ 3031 III| Bacchus dear,~Or warlike wolf-kin or the breed of dogs?~Why 3032 I| first~Sprang from earth’s womb at thy great trident’s stroke,~ 3033 IV| upper air~Had well-nigh won, behind him following-So 3034 IV| Halls of death~Stood lost in wonderment, and the Eumenides,~Their 3035 I| was heard with power, and wondrous-pale~Phantoms were seen upon 3036 III| rock-flung shadow lies.~Round wooded Silarus and the ilex-bowers~ 3037 IV| Parthenope~The nursling, wooed the flowery walks of peace~ 3038 III| second task remains,~The wool-clad flocks and shaggy goats 3039 III| sacrifice to heaven— the white~Wool-woven fillet half wreathed about 3040 IV| whose lay, the while their woolly tasks~With spindles down 3041 IV| rocks sonorous ring,~And the word spoken buffets and rebounds.~ 3042 III| know~How hard it is for words to triumph here,~And shed 3043 III| lingering spires.~Then that vile worm that in Calabrian glades~ 3044 I| Speed all things to the worse, and backward borne~Glide 3045 IV| field recalled,~Who hath the worser seeming, do to death,~Lest 3046 IV| Ocean, sire of all,~She worships, and the sister-nymphs who 3047 III| Chestnut and grey are good; the worst-hued white~And sorrel. Then lo! 3048 III| to couch;~But he that’s worsted hies him to strange climes~ 3049 III| thee,~Amphrysian shepherd, worthy to be sung,~You, woods and 3050 IV| And seek through showering wounds a glorious death.~Led by 3051 IV| tall woods the dance she wove,~Wrought on thy bees, alas! 3052 II| summits reigns victoriously,~Wraps all the grove in robes of 3053 III| this same scourge did Juno wreak of old~The terrors of her 3054 II| coils~Along the ground, or wreathe him into spires.~Mark too 3055 III| white~Wool-woven fillet half wreathed about his brow-Some victim, 3056 III| Uprears his breast, and wreathes a scaly back,~His length 3057 III| nostrils snort and roll out wreaths of fire.~Dense is his mane, 3058 II| nor blasts, nor showers~Wrench from its bed; unshaken it 3059 III| impelled had drawn~Their wretched limbs together, anon oerflowed~ 3060 III| as rugs to wrap~Seafaring wretches. But they browse the woods~ 3061 IV| all the region with her wrongs oerflows.~No love, no new 3062 IV| deepest deeps of Erebus,~Wrung by his minstrelsy, the hollow 3063 IV| with hyaline dye,~Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce,~Their 3064 IV| saying, she bids the flood yawn wide and yield~A pathway 3065 I| stand still,~And the earth yawns asunder, ivory weeps~For 3066 III| ushering in the night.~But, yeaning ended, all their tender 3067 IV| Clutching vain shadows, yearning sore to speak,~Thenceforth 3068 IV| shed,~Cydippe and Lycorias yellow-haired,~A maiden one, one newly 3069 IV| dark Galaesus laves the yellowing fields,~An old man once 3070 IV| near their home let neither yew-tree grow,~Nor reddening crabs 3071 III| his spires,~And eggs or younglings leaving in his lair,~Towers 3072 III| the course and go,~When youthful hope is highest, and every 3073 IV| service, boys, unwedded girls,~Youths placed on pyre before their 3074 III| draws nigh, ~With instant zeal they lavish all their care~ 3075 IV| ocean-children both,~Both zoned with gold and girt with 3076 I| constellations of the world.~Five zones the heavens contain; whereof


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