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 Book IV. While with war's thunders conqu'ring  awes

Euphrates' flood, to willing worlds gives laws,

Aspiring to Heav'n's heights, in humble strains

I sung of cattle, trees, and cultur'd plains.

'Twas then I  my sequester'd seat

Fixt at Parthenope's belov'd retreat,

Deep in the studies of inglorious ease;

I, who with rural verse essay'd to please,

And with youth's boldness sung thee, Tityrus! laid,

Where a broad Beech spread wide her arching shade.