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From the
Latin of VIRGIL (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 BC)
SECOND
PASTORAL
Corydon
the shepherd was gone on the handsome Alexis,
his
master’s fancy, so all that he wished was denied him.
He
slunk all the time in the thickly crowded beech-wood,
in
the high-ridged shadows. There these were the aimless snatches
he
threw at the mountains and woods in his moping passion:
‘O
cruel Alexis, do you feel no grief at my song?
...
Virgil (translated
by Alan Marshfield)
(For full translation
see the Kindle ebook The Translations of Alan Marshfield)
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