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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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    In early spring-tide, when the icy drip
    Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr's breath
    Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then 'tis time;
    Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox,
    And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine.
    That land the craving farmer's prayer fulfils,
    Which twice the sunshine, twice the frost has felt;
    Ay, that's the land whose boundless harvest-crops
    Burst, see! the barns. But ere our metal cleave
    An unknown surface, heed we to forelearn
    The winds and varying temper of the sky,
    The lineal tilth and habits of the spot,
    What every region yields, and what denies.
    Here blithelier springs the corn, and here the grape,
    There earth is green with tender growth of trees
    And grass unbidden. See how from Tmolus comes
    The saffron's fragrance, ivory from Ind,
    From Saba's weakling sons their frankincense,
    Iron from the naked Chalybs, castor rank
    From Pontus, from Epirus the prize-palms
    O' the mares of Elis. Such the eternal bond
    And such the laws by Nature's hand imposed
    On clime and clime, e'er since the primal dawn
    When old Deucalion on the unpeopled earth
    Cast stones, whence men, a flinty race, were reared.
    Up then! if fat the soil, let sturdy bulls
    Upturn it from the year's first opening months,
    And let the clods lie bare till baked to dust
    By the ripe suns of summer; but if the earth
    Less fruitful just ere Arcturus rise
    With shallower trench uptilt it--'twill suffice;
    There, lest weeds choke the crop's luxuriance, here,
    Lest the scant moisture fail the barren sand.


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

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    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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