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    P. Vergilius Maro, Georgics (ed. J. B. Greenough)

    Editions and translations: English (ed. J. B. Greenough) | Latin (ed. J. B. Greenough)
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    What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star
    Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod
    Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer;
    What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof
    Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;--
    Such are my themes. O universal lights
    Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year
    Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild,
    If by your bounty holpen earth once changed
    Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear,
    And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift,
    The draughts of Achelous; and ye Fauns
    To rustics ever kind, come foot it, Fauns
    And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing.
    And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first
    Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke,
    Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom
    Three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes,
    The fertile brakes of Ceos; and clothed in power,
    Thy native forest and Lycean lawns,
    Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking, as the love
    Of thine own Maenalus constrains thee, hear
    And help, O lord of Tegea! And thou, too,
    Minerva, from whose hand the olive sprung;
    And boy-discoverer of the curved plough;
    And, bearing a young cypress root-uptorn,
    Silvanus, and Gods all and Goddesses,
    Who make the fields your care, both ye who nurse
    The tender unsown increase, and from heaven
    Shed on man's sowing the riches of your rain:
    And thou, even thou, of whom we know not yet
    What mansion of the skies shall hold thee soon,
    Whether to watch o'er cities be thy will,
    Great Caesar, and to take the earth in charge,
    That so the mighty world may welcome thee
    Lord of her increase, master of her times,
    Binding thy mother's myrtle round thy brow,
    Or as the boundless ocean's God thou come,
    Sole dread of seamen, till far Thule bow
    Before thee, and Tethys win thee to her son
    With all her waves for dower; or as a star
    Lend thy fresh beams our lagging months to cheer,
    Where 'twixt the Maid and those pursuing Claws
    A space is opening; see! red Scorpio's self
    His arms draws in, yea, and hath left thee more
    Than thy full meed of heaven: be what thou wilt--
    For neither Tartarus hopes to call thee king,
    Nor may so dire a lust of sovereignty
    E'er light upon thee, howso Greece admire
    Elysium's fields, and Proserpine not heed
    Her mother's voice entreating to return--
    Vouchsafe a prosperous voyage, and smile on this
    My bold endeavour, and pitying, even as I,
    These poor way-wildered swains, at once begin,
    Grow timely used unto the voice of prayer.


    There is one comment on or cross reference to this page.

    Cross references from John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2:
    8, 316 [LIBER OCTAVUS.]

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    The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.
    OCLC: 22858571


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