Moy sand and gravel by Muldoon Paul

Moy sand and gravel by Muldoon Paul

Author:Muldoon, Paul.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2002-04-29T04:00:00+00:00


For though Achilles and his fleet, consumed as they are with ire, may delay the course of events, by the time ten years have rolled round the Greeks will have set the fire that will burn Troy to the ground."

BOOK III ODE XVIII

Faunus, you who love the nymphs, from whom the nymphs love to run,

may you look kindly, as you cross in and out of my farm,

on its boundary posts and pastures already blessed by the sun,

and deliver the littlest of my flock from harm

if it please you that, at the high point of the year,

a little kid might indeed be offered to you, the wine

which Venus holds so dear

indeed fill the mixing bowl, smoke rise from the ancient shrine,

one and all besporting themselves on the still-green grazing as early December rolls round, be it the flocks of sheep or the country folk lazing with the lazing ox,



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