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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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