Virgil - Eclogues

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Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.

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What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

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The mountain-tops unshorn, the rocks rejoice;
The lowly shrubs partake of human voice.

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O heavenly poet, such thy verse appears,
So sweet, so charming to my ravish'd ears,
As to the weary swain with cares oppress'd,
Beneath the sylvan shade, refreshing rest.

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"Loose me," he cry'd, "'twas impudence to find
A sleeping god, 'tis sacrilege to bind."

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Close the sluices now, lads; the fields have drunk enough.

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We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being.

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But we from here are to go some to the parched Africans, another group to Scythia and others of us shall come to the Oaxes swirling with clay, and amongst the Britons who are kept far away from the whole world.

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Me too the Muses made write verse. I have songs of my own, the shepherds call me also a poet; but I'm not inclined to trust them. For I don't seem yet to write things as good either as Varius or as Cinna, but to be a goose honking amongst tuneful swans.

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Draw Daphnis from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.

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The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now Justice returns, returns the Golden Age; a new generation now descends from on high.

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Both in the flower of their youth, Arcadians both, and matched and ready alike to start a song and to respond.

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Tityrus, you who lie under cover of the spreading beech-tree, you are practising your pastoral music on a thin stalk.

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Now dam the ditches, and the floods restrain:
Their moisture has already drench'd the plain.

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