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First Line: O fortunate old man!
Last Line: A shelter and a shade on your own ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors


O fortunate old man!
Then these ancestral folds are yours again;
And wide enough for you. Though naked stone,
And marsh with slimy rush, abut upon
The lowlands, yet your pregnant ewes shall try
No unproved forage; neighb'ring flocks, too nigh,
Strike no contagion, nor infect the young:
O fortunate, who now at last, among
Known streams and sacred fountain-heads have found
A shelter and a shade on your own ground.




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