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TO VARUS	A
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First my Thalia stooped in sportive mood	B
To Syracusan strains nor blushed within	C
The woods to house her When I sought to tell	D
Of battles and of kings the Cynthian god	E
Plucked at mine ear and warned me 'Tityrus	A
Beseems a shepherd wight to feed fat sheep	F
But sing a slender song ' Now Varus I	G
For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds	A
And treat of dolorous wars will rather tune	H
To the slim oaten reed my silvan lay	I
I sing but as vouchsafed me yet even this	A
If if but one with ravished eyes should read	J
Of thee O Varus shall our tamarisks	A
And all the woodland ring nor can there be	K
A page more dear to Phoebus than the page	L
Where foremost writ the name of Varus stands	A
Speed ye Pierian Maids Within a cave	M
Young Chromis and Mnasyllos chanced to see	K
Silenus sleeping flushed as was his wont	N
With wine of yesterday Not far aloof	O
Slipped from his head the garlands lay and there	P
By its worn handle hung a ponderous cup	Q
Approaching for the old man many a time	R
Had balked them both of a long hoped for song	S
Garlands to fetters turned they bind him fast	T
Then Aegle fairest of the Naiad band	U
Aegle came up to the half frightened boys	A
Came and as now with open eyes he lay	I
With juice of blood red mulberries smeared him o'er	V
Both brow and temples Laughing at their guile	W
And crying 'Why tie the fetters loose me boys	A
Enough for you to think you had the power	V
Now list the songs you wish for songs for you	X
Another meed for her' forthwith began	Y
Then might you see the wild things of the wood	Z
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time	R
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow	A2
Not Phoebus doth the rude Parnassian crag	S
So ravish nor Orpheus so entrance the heights	A
Of Rhodope or Ismarus for he sang	S
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven	B2
Of earth air ocean and of liquid fire	V
How all that is from these beginnings grew	X
And the young world itself took solid shape	C2
Then 'gan its crust to harden and in the deep	F
Shut Nereus off and mould the forms of things	A
Little by little and how the earth amazed	D2
Beheld the new sun shining and the showers	A
Fall as the clouds soared higher what time the woods	A
'Gan first to rise and living things to roam	E2
Scattered among the hills that knew them not	F2
Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast	T
Of Saturn's reign and of Prometheus' theft	G2
And the Caucasian birds and told withal	W
Nigh to what fountain by his comrades left	G2
The mariners cried on Hylas till the shore	H2
'Then Re echoed 'Hylas Hylas soothed	I2
Pasiphae with the love of her white bull	W
Happy if cattle kind had never been	C
O ill starred maid what frenzy caught thy soul	W
The daughters too of Proetus filled the fields	A
With their feigned lowings yet no one of them	J2
Of such unhallowed union e'er was fain	K2
As with a beast to mate though many a time	R
On her smooth forehead she had sought for horns	A
And for her neck had feared the galling plough	A2
O ill starred maid thou roamest now the hills	A
While on soft hyacinths he his snowy side	L2
Reposing under some dark ilex now	A2
Chews the pale herbage or some heifer tracks	A
Amid the crowding herd Now close ye Nymphs	A
Ye Nymphs of Dicte close the forest glades	A
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes	A
The white bull's wandering foot prints him belike	S
Following the herd or by green pasture lured	M2
Some kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls	A
Then sings he of the maid so wonder struck	S
With the apples of the Hesperids and then	N2
With moss bound bitter bark rings round the forms	A
Of Phaethon's fair sisters from the ground	O2
Up towering into poplars Next he sings	A
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream	P2
And by a sister of the Muses led	J
To the Aonian mountains and how all	W
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him how	A2
The shepherd Linus singer of songs divine	Q2
Brow bound with flowers and bitter parsley spake	S
'These reeds the Muses give thee take them thou	A2
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given	B2
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw	R2
Time rooted ash trees from the mountain heights	A
With these the birth of the Grynean grove	S2
Be voiced by thee that of no grove beside	L2
Apollo more may boast him ' Wherefore speak	S
Of Scylla child of Nisus who 'tis said	J
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt	T2
Vexed the Dulichian ships and in the deep	F
Swift eddying whirlpool with her sea dogs tore	H2
The trembling mariners or how he told	U2
Of the changed limbs of Tereus what a feast	V2
What gifts to him by Philomel were given	B2
How swift she sought the desert with what wings	A
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home	E2
All that of old Eurotas happy stream	P2
Heard as Apollo mused upon the lyre	W2
And bade his laurels learn Silenus sang	S
Till from Olympus loth at his approach	X2
Vesper advancing bade the shepherds tell	W
Their tale of sheep and pen them in the fold	U2

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