Eclogue 8: To Pollio Damon Alphesiboeus Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now	A
Those shepherd singers at whose rival strains	B
The heifer wondering forgot to graze	C
The lynx stood awe struck and the flowing streams	D
Unwonted loiterers stayed their course to hear	E
How Damon and Alphesiboeus sang	F
Their pastoral ditties will I tell the tale	G
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Thou whether broad Timavus' rocky banks	H
Thou now art passing or dost skirt the shore	I
Of the Illyrian main will ever dawn	J
That day when I thy deeds may celebrate	K
Ever that day when through the whole wide world	L
I may renown thy verse that verse alone	M
Of Sophoclean buskin worthy found	N
With thee began to thee shall end the strain	O
Take thou these songs that owe their birth to thee	P
And deign around thy temples to let creep	Q
This ivy chaplet 'twixt the conquering bays	C
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky	R
What time to nibbling sheep the dewy grass	S
Tastes sweetest when on his smooth shepherd staff	T
Of olive leaning Damon thus began	U
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DAMON	V
'Rise Lucifer and heralding the light	W
Bring in the genial day while I make moan	M
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride	X
For Nysa and with this my dying breath	Y
Call on the gods though little it bestead	X
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not	X
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves	Z
And whispering pines and ever hears the songs	A2
Of love lorn shepherds and of Pan who first	X
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie	R
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Nysa to Mopsus given what may not then	B2
We lovers look for soon shall we see mate	X
Griffins with mares and in the coming age	C2
Shy deer and hounds together come to drink	D2
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Now Mopsus cut new torches for they bring	E2
Your bride along now bridegroom scatter nuts	F2
Forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star	G2
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
O worthy of thy mate while all men else	H2
Thou scornest and with loathing dost behold	X
My shepherd's pipe my goats my shaggy brow	A
And untrimmed beard nor deem'st that any god	X
For mortal doings hath regard or care	I2
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Once with your mother in our orchard garth	J2
A little maid I saw you I your guide	X
Plucking the dewy apples My twelfth year	K2
I scarce had entered and could barely reach	L2
The brittle boughs I looked and I was lost	X
A sudden frenzy swept my wits away	M2
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Now know I what Love is 'mid savage rocks	N2
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy	O2
Or Garamantes in earth's utmost bounds	P2
No kin of ours nor of our blood begot	X
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart	X
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue	K2
Mother thou too wert cruel say wert thou	A
More cruel mother or more ruthless he	P
Ruthless the boy thou mother cruel too	X
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	C
Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep	Q
Tough oaks bear golden apples alder trees	Q2
Bloom with narcissus flower the tamarisk	R2
Sweat with rich amber and the screech owl vie	R
In singing with the swan let Tityrus	Q2
Be Orpheus Orpheus in the forest glade	X
Arion 'mid his dolphins on the deep	Q
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'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	Q2
Yea be the whole earth to mid ocean turned	X
Farewell ye woodlands I from the tall peak	S2
Of yon aerial rock will headlong plunge	T2
Into the billows this my latest gift	X
From dying lips bequeathed thee see thou keep	Q
Cease now my flute now cease Maenalian lays '	-
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Thus Damon but do ye Pierian Maids	Q2
We cannot all do all things tell me how	A
Alphesiboeus to his strain replied	X
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ALPHESIBOEUS	Q2
'Bring water and with soft wool fillet bind	X
These altars round about and burn thereon	J
Rich vervain and male frankincense that I	R
May strive with magic spells to turn astray	K2
My lover's saner senses whereunto	X
There lacketh nothing save the power of song	U2
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven	V
Circe with singing changed from human form	W2
The comrades of Ulysses and by song	U2
Is the cold meadow snake asunder burst	X
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
These triple threads of threefold colour first	X
I twine about thee and three times withal	R
Around these altars do thine image bear	K2
Uneven numbers are the god's delight	X
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
Now Amaryllis ply in triple knots	Q2
The threefold colours ply them fast and say	K2
This is the chain of Venus that I ply	R
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
As by the kindling of the self same fire	K2
Harder this clay this wax the softer grows	Q2
So by my love may Daphnis sprinkle meal	R
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays	Q2
Me Daphnis with his cruelty doth burn	X2
I to melt cruel Daphnis burn this bay	K2
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
As when some heifer seeking for her steer	K2
Through woodland and deep grove sinks wearied out	X
On the green sedge beside a stream love lorn	X2
Nor marks the gathering night that calls her home	V2
As pines that heifer with such love as hers	Q2
May Daphnis pine and I not care to heal	R
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
These relics once dear pledges of himself	Y2
The traitor left me which O earth to thee	P
Here on this very threshold I commit	X
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt	X
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
These herbs of bane to me did Moeris give	Z2
In Pontus culled where baneful herbs abound	X
With these full oft have I seen Moeris change	A3
To a wolf's form and hide him in the woods	Q2
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess	Q2
And to new fields transport the standing corn	X2
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
Take ashes Amaryllis fetch them forth	B3
And o'er your head into the running brook	C3
Fling them nor look behind with these will	R
Upon the heart of Daphnis make essay	K2
Nothing for gods nothing for songs cares he	P
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'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	V2
Look look I the very embers of themselves	Q2
Have caught the altar with a flickering flame	D3
While I delay to fetch them may the sign	X2
Prove lucky something it must mean for sure	K2
And Hylax on the threshold 'gins to bark	E3
May we believe it or are lovers still	R
By their own fancies fooled	X
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Give o'er my songs	Q2
Daphnis is coming from the town give o'er '	-

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