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MELIBOEUS TITYRUS	A
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Meliboeus	A
You Tityrus 'neath a broad beech canopy	B
Reclining on the slender oat rehearse	A
Your silvan ditties I from my sweet fields	A
And home's familiar bounds even now depart	C
Exiled from home am I while Tityrus you	D
Sit careless in the shade and at your call	E
'Fair Amaryllis' bid the woods resound	F
	-
Tityrus	A
O Meliboeus 'twas a god vouchsafed	F
This ease to us for him a god will I	G
Deem ever and from my folds a tender lamb	H
Oft with its life blood shall his altar stain	I
His gift it is that as your eyes may see	A
My kine may roam at large and I myself	J
Play on my shepherd's pipe what songs I will	K
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Meliboeus	A
I grudge you not the boon but marvel more	L
Such wide confusion fills the country side	F
See sick at heart I drive my she goats on	M
And this one O my Tityrus scarce can lead	F
For 'mid the hazel thicket here but now	N
She dropped her new yeaned twins on the bare flint	F
Hope of the flock an ill I mind me well	O
Which many a time but for my blinded sense	A
The thunder stricken oak foretold oft too	F
From hollow trunk the raven's ominous cry	G
But who this god of yours Come Tityrus tell	O
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Tityrus	A
The city Meliboeus they call Rome	P
I simpleton deemed like this town of ours	A
Whereto we shepherds oft are wont to drive	Q
The younglings of the flock so too I knew	F
Whelps to resemble dogs and kids their dams	A
Comparing small with great but this as far	R
Above all other cities rears her head	F
As cypress above pliant osier towers	A
	-
Meliboeus	A
And what so potent cause took you to Rome	P
	-
Tityrus	A
Freedom which though belated cast at length	S
Her eyes upon the sluggard when my beard	F
'Gan whiter fall beneath the barber's blade	F
Cast eyes I say and though long tarrying came	T
Now when from Galatea's yoke released	F
I serve but Amaryllis for I will own	U
While Galatea reigned over me I had	F
No hope of freedom and no thought to save	V
Though many a victim from my folds went forth	W
Or rich cheese pressed for the unthankful town	X
Never with laden hands returned I home	P
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Meliboeus	A
I used to wonder Amaryllis why	G
You cried to heaven so sadly and for whom	Y
You left the apples hanging on the trees	A
'Twas Tityrus was away Why Tityrus	A
The very pines the very water springs	A
The very vineyards cried aloud for you	F
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Tityrus	A
What could I do how else from bonds be freed	F
Or otherwhere find gods so nigh to aid	F
There Meliboeus I saw that youth to whom	Y
Yearly for twice six days my altars smoke	Z
There instant answer gave he to my suit	F
'Feed as before your kine boys rear your bulls '	-
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Meliboeus	A
So in old age you happy man your fields	A
Will still be yours and ample for your need	F
Though with bare stones o'erspread the pastures all	E
Be choked with rushy mire your ewes with young	A2
By no strange fodder will be tried nor hurt	F
Through taint contagious of a neighbouring flock	B2
Happy old man who 'mid familiar streams	A
And hallowed springs will court the cooling shade	F
Here as of old your neighbour's bordering hedge	C2
That feasts with willow flower the Hybla bees	A
Shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep	D2
While the leaf dresser beneath some tall rock	B2
Uplifts his song nor cease their cooings hoarse	A
The wood pigeons that are your heart's delight	F
Nor doves their moaning in the elm tree top	E2
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Tityrus	A
Sooner shall light stags therefore feed in air	F2
The seas their fish leave naked on the strand	F
Germans and Parthians shift their natural bounds	A
And these the Arar those the Tigris drink	G2
Than from my heart his face and memory fade	F
	-
Meliboeus	A
But we far hence to burning Libya some	H2
Some to the Scythian steppes or thy swift flood	F
Cretan Oaxes now must wend our way	I2
Or Britain from the whole world sundered far	R
Ah shall I ever in aftertime behold	F
My native bounds see many a harvest hence	A
With ravished eyes the lowly turf roofed cot	F
Where I was king These fallows trimmed so fair	F2
Some brutal soldier will possess these fields	A
An alien master Ah to what a pass	A
Has civil discord brought our hapless folk	Z
For such as these then were our furrows sown	U
Now Meliboeus graft your pears now set	F
Your vines in order Go once happy flock	B2
My she goats go Never again shall I	G
Stretched in green cave behold you from afar	R
Hang from the bushy rock my songs are sung	A2
Never again will you with me to tend	F
On clover flower or bitter willows browse	A
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Tityrus	A
Yet here this night you might repose with me	A
On green leaves pillowed apples ripe have I	G
Soft chestnuts and of curdled milk enow	U
And see the farm roof chimneys smoke afar	R
And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall	E

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