284But meanwhile time flies, flies beyond recall, while we, captivated by love, linger over each detail. 286Enough for the herds: the other part of my task remains, to tend woolly flocks and shaggy goats. 288Here is labour; from this, brave farmers, hope for praise. 289Nor am I in doubt how great a task it is to master these things in words, and to bestow this honour on humble themes; 291but sweet love carries me away over the lonely heights of Parnassus; 292it is a joy to go over ridges where no track of earlier poets turns down to Castalia by a gentle slope. 294Now, revered Pales, now I must sing in a mighty voice
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 3.284–294
The poet turns to sheep and goats
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Vergil, Georgics. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.