Eclogue

 1    I|       my shepherd’s pipe what songs I will.~Meliboeus.~I grudge
 2    I|       from the bushy rock; my songs are sung;~Never again will
 3    1|    Alexis, heed you naught my songs?~Have you no pity? you’ll
 4  III|    the earth fruitful, for my songs hath care.”~Menalcas.~“Me
 5  III| Bavius, let him also love~Thy songs, O Maevius, ay, and therewithal~
 6   VI|       the power;~Now list the songs you wish for— songs for
 7   VI|       the songs you wish for— songs for you,~Another meed for
 8   VI|     shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,~Brow-bound with
 9 VIII|       strain.~Take thou these songs that owe their birth to
10 VIII|     pines, and ever hears the songs~Of love-lorn shepherds,
11 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~Songs
12 VIII|     songs, draw Daphnis home.~Songs can the very moon draw down
13 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~These
14 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~Now,
15 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~As by
16 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~As when
17 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~These
18 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~These
19 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~Take
20 VIII| Nothing for gods, nothing for songs cares he.~“Draw from the
21 VIII|        Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.~Look,
22 VIII| fancies fooled?~Give oer, my songs,~Daphnis is coming from
23   IX|       all the land~Was by the songs of your Menalcas saved.~
24   IX|      of arms, my Lycidas,~Our songs avail no more than, as ’
25   IX|    sun to rest,~But all those songs are from my memory fled,~
26    X|      will depart, re-tune the songs I framed~In verse Chalcidian
27    X|   neither Hamadryads, no, nor songs~Delight me more: ye woods,
28    X|  yield we too to love!”~These songs, Pierian Maids, shall it
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