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yilai:
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are on carenor
suffering realm of his In drowsy sloth to stagnate. Before Jove Fields
29BC THE GEORGICS
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knew no taming hand of husbandmen; To mark the plain or mete with
boundary-line- Even this was impious; for the common stock They
gatheredand the earth of her own will All things more freelyno man
biddingbore. He to black serpents gave their venom-baneAnd bade the
wolf go prowland ocean toss; Shook from the leaves their honeyput fire
awayAnd curbed the random rivers running wineThat use by gradual
dint of thought on thought Might forge the various artswith furrow's help
The corn-blade winand strike out hidden fire From the flint's heart. Then
first the streams were ware Of hollowed alder-hulls: the sailor then Their
names and numbers gave to star and starPleiads and Hyadsand Lycaon's
child Bright Arctos; how with nooses then was found To catch wild beasts
and cozen them with limeAnd hem with hounds the mighty forest-glades.
Soon one with hand-net scourges the broad streamProbing its depthsone
drags his dripping toils Along the main; then iron's unbending mightAnd
shrieking saw-blade- for the men of old With wedges wont to cleave the
splintering log;- Then divers arts [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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