# Quote — Virgil, The Georgics

> But as for me—first above all, may the sweet Muses whose holy emblems, under the spell of a mighty love, I bear, take me to themselves, and show me heaven's pathways, the stars, the sun's many lapses, the moon's many labours; whence come tremblings of the earth, the force to make deep seas swell and burst their barriers, then sink back upon themselves; why winter suns hasten so fast to dip in Ocean, or what delays clog the lingering nights.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Georgics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-georgics.md)
- Original (la): Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, / Quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, / Accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent, / Defectus solis varios lunaeque labores; / Unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant / Obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant. / Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles / Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
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> But when you hold him in the grasp of hands and fetters, then will manifold forms baffle you, and figures of wild beasts. For of a sudden he will become a bristly boar, a deadly tiger, a scaly serpent, or a lioness with tawny neck; or he will give forth the fierce roar of flame, and thus slip from his fetters, or he will melt into fleeting water and be gone.

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> And now farewell! Involved in shades of night,
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> For ever I am ravished from thy sight.
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> In vain I reach my feeble hands to join
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> In sweet embraces—ah! no longer thine!

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