Eclogue 5: Menalcas Mopsus Poem Rhyme Scheme

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MENALCAS	A
Why Mopsus being both together met	B
You skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds	A
I to sing ditties do we not sit down	C
Here where the elm trees and the hazels blend	D
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MOPSUS	A
You are the elder 'tis for me to bide	E
Your choice Menalcas whether now we seek	F
Yon shade that quivers to the changeful breeze	A
Or the cave's shelter Look you how the cave	G
Is with the wild vine's clusters over laced	H
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MENALCAS	A
None but Amyntas on these hills of ours	A
Can vie with you	I
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MOPSUS	A
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What if he also strive	J
To out sing Phoebus	A
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MENALCAS	A
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Do you first begin	K
Good Mopsus whether minded to sing aught	H
Of Phyllis and her loves or Alcon's praise	A
Or to fling taunts at Codrus Come begin	K
While Tityrus watches o'er the grazing kids	A
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MOPSUS	A
Nay then I will essay what late I carved	H
On a green beech tree's rind playing by turns	A
And marking down the notes then afterward	H
Bid you Amyntas match them if he can	L
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MENALCAS	A
As limber willow to pale olive yields	A
As lowly Celtic nard to rose buds bright	H
So to my mind Amyntas yields to you	I
But hold awhile for to the cave we come	M
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MOPSUS	A
'For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs	A
Ye hazels bear them witness and ye streams	A
When she his mother clasping in her arms	A
The hapless body of the son she bare	N
To gods and stars unpitying poured her plaint	H
Then Daphnis to the cooling streams were none	O
That drove the pastured oxen then no beast	H
Drank of the river or would the grass blade touch	P
Nay the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar	Q
Of Afric lions mourning for thy death	R
Daphnis 'twas thou bad'st yoke to Bacchus' car	S
Armenian tigresses lead on the pomp	T
Of revellers and with tender foliage wreathe	R
The bending spear wands As to trees the vine	U
Is crown of glory as to vines the grape	V
Bulls to the herd to fruitful fields the corn	W
So the one glory of thine own art thou	R
When the Fates took thee hence then Pales' self	X
And even Apollo left the country lone	Y
Where the plump barley grain so oft we sowed	H
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring	Z
For tender violet and narcissus bright	H
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads	A
Now O ye shepherds strew the ground with leaves	A
And o'er the fountains draw a shady veil	A2
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done	O
And rear a tomb and write thereon this verse	A
'I Daphnis in the woods from hence in fame	B2
Am to the stars exalted guardian once	A
Of a fair flock myself more fair than they ''	-
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MENALCAS	A
So is thy song to me poet divine	U
As slumber on the grass to weary limbs	A
Or to slake thirst from some sweet bubbling rill	C2
In summer's heat Nor on the reeds alone	Y
But with thy voice art thou thrice happy boy	D2
Ranked with thy master second but to him	E2
Yet will I too in turn as best I may	F2
Sing thee a song and to the stars uplift	H
Thy Daphnis Daphnis to the stars extol	G2
For me too Daphnis loved	H
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MOPSUS	A
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Than such a boon	H2
What dearer could I deem the boy himself	X
Was worthy to be sung and many a time	I2
Hath Stimichon to me your singing praised	H
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MENALCAS	A
'In dazzling sheen with unaccustomed eyes	A
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate	H
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars	A
Wherefore the woods and fields Pan shepherd folk	J2
And Dryad maidens thrill with eager joy	D2
Nor wolf with treacherous wile assails the flock	K2
Nor nets the stag kind Daphnis loveth peace	A
The unshorn mountains to the stars up toss	A
Voices of gladness ay the very rocks	A
The very thickets shout and sing 'A god	H
A god is he Menalcas 'Be thou kind	H
Propitious to thine own Lo altars four	Q
Twain to thee Daphnis and to Phoebus twain	L2
For sacrifice we build and I for thee	R
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam	I2
And of rich olive oil two bowls will set	H
And of the wine god's bounty above all	M2
If cold before the hearth or in the shade	H
At harvest time to glad the festal hour	N2
From flasks of Ariusian grape will pour	Q
Sweet nectar Therewithal at my behest	H
Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing	Z
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance	A
The dancing Satyrs This thy service due	H
Shalt thou lack never both when we pay the Nymphs	A
Our yearly vows and when with lustral rites	A
The fields we hallow Long as the wild boar	Q
Shall love the mountain heights and fish the streams	A
While bees on thyme and crickets feed on dew	H
Thy name thy praise thine honour shall endure	O2
Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres so	A
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make	P2
And thou thereof like them shalt quittance claim '	-
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MOPSUS	A
How how repay thee for a song so rare	N
For not the whispering south wind on its way	F2
So much delights me nor wave smitten beach	Q2
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds	A
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MENALCAS	A
First this frail hemlock stalk to you I give	R2
Which taught me 'Corydon with love was fired	H
For fair Alexis ' ay and this beside	H
'Who owns the flock Meliboeus '	-
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MOPSUS	A
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But take you	H
This shepherd's crook which howso hard he begged	H
Antigenes then worthy to be loved	H
Prevailed not to obtain with brass you see	A
And equal knots Menalcas fashioned fair	N

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