Eclogue

 1  VII|  Thou’ldst come to me, fair Lycidas, to thee~Both forest-ash,
 2   IX|                  ECLOGUE IX~LYCIDAS, MOERIS~Lycidas.~Say whither,
 3   IX|  ECLOGUE IX~LYCIDAS, MOERIS~Lycidas.~Say whither, Moeris?— Make
 4   IX| what errand bent?~Moeris.~O Lycidas,~We have lived to see, what
 5   IX| same!-’~These kids you see.~Lycidas.~But surely I had heard~
 6   IX|   mid the clash of arms, my Lycidas,~Our songs avail no more
 7   IX| Menalcas, were alive today.~Lycidas.~Alack! could any of so
 8   IX|  bear upward to the stars.”~Lycidas.~So may your swarms Cyrnean
 9   IX|     in my thought to do so, Lycidas;~Even now was I revolving
10   IX|    to beat upon the shore.”~Lycidas.~What of the strain I heard
11   IX|  will repeat them oft enow.~Lycidas.~Your pleas but linger out