Blessed Birth

A babe in a uterus at left, with undulating placenta. Kittens nursing in a field, and calf suckling at bottom.

Vergil's Eclogues no. 4: Translation by John Dryden.

Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung Has come and gone,
and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign, With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
Only do thou, at the boy's birth...