Page 10 Advertisements Column 4

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20689, 11 April 1929, Page 10

After the Roman poet Virgil had died 2000 years ago the very place of his death and burial became almost forgotten. But to-day he is not forgotten. This very year at Piedigrotta, where Virgil’s tomb is supposed to be. he is to be honoured and' remembered. The words Virgil wrote are never to be forgotten. He wrote of myrtles and laurels and the rustling pines. The doves bill and coo in his musical lines. He loved his garden. Myrtle and laurel and pine have been planted anew by the cave which may have been his tomb. The ruined garden has been made whole again, and the place where Virgil’s doves delighted him restored. Next year a statue of the poet will preside over the scene.