Excerpt from The ?neids of Virgil: Done Into English Verse
The ?neids of Virgil.
Say, Muse, what wound of godhead was whereby all this must come.
How grieving, she, the Queen of Gods, a man so pious drave
To win such toil, to welter on through such a troublous wave:
- Can anger in immortal minds abide so fierce and fell?
There was a city of old time where Tyrian folk did dwell,
Called Carthage, facing far away the shores of Italy
And Tiber-mouth ;fulfilled of wealth and fierce in arms was she.
And men say Juno loved her well o'er every other land,
Yea e'en o'er Samos: there were stored the weapons of her hand,
And there her chariot: even then she cherished the intent
To make her Lady of all Lands, if Fate might so be bent;
Yet had she heard how such a stem from Trojan blood should grow,
As, blooming fair, the Tyrian towers should one day overthrow,
That thence a folk, kings far and wide, most noble lords of fight,
Should come for bane of Libyan land: such web the Parc? dight.
The Seed of Saturn, fearing this, and mindful how she erst
For her beloved Argive walls by Troy the battle nursed -
- Nay neither had the cause of wrath nor all those hurts of old
Failed from her mind: her inmost heart still sorely did enfold
That grief of body set at nought in Paris' doomful deed,
The hated race, and honour shed on heaven-rapt Ganymede -
So set on fire, that Trojan band o'er all the ocean tossed,
Those gleanings from Achilles' rage, those few the Greeks had lost.
She drave far off the Latin Land: for many a year they stray
Such wise as Fate would drive them on by every watery way.
-Lo, what there was to heave aloft in fashioning of Rome:
Now out of sight of Sicily the Trojans scarce were come
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