The Georgics of Virgil, Literally and Rhythmically Tr. by W. Sewell (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE THIRD GEORGIC. Thee too, great Goddess, Pales; also thee, O much to be remember'd, will we sing, Thou shepherd from Amphrysus; you, ye woods, And rivers of Lyceum. Other songs Which vacant spirits might have spell-bound held, All are by this profan'd. Who doth not know Either of stern Eurystheus, or the shrines Of that unprais'd Busiris ? By what bard Unsung the stripling Hylas, and that isle Of Lato, Delos, and Hippodame, And Pelops, scutcheou'd with his ivory arm, Keen with his coursers ? Tried must be a path, Whereby me also I may lift from earth, And float victorious through the mouths of men. I, first of Romans, to my fatherland Returning, with me (let but life survive) Will usher down the Muses from the peak Aonian: first of Romans, unto thee, Mantua, the palms of Edom will I bring, And on the verdant plain a temple raise Of marble, by the water, where immense With slow maeandrings Mincius wanders on, And fringes o'er its banks with tender reed. In the mid dome, my pride, shall Caesar stand, And occupy the temple. Unto him Will I, victorious, and the gaze of all, In Tyrian purple, lash along the streams A hundred four-yok'd cars. Throng'd at my call, Quitting Alpheus, and Molorchus' groves, Greece shall with races, and the gauntlet crude, Decide the day. Myself, my head bedeck'd With leaves of close-clipp'd olive, gifts will bring. E'en now 'tis joy to marshal to the shrines The annual pomps, and view the slaughter'd steers; Or how, with shifted frontispiece, the scene Parting retires; and how intissued forms Of Britons, bear the crimson tapestries up. Upon the folding gates a battle I From gold and massive iv'ry, will construct, Battle of sons of Gan...