Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. With Ivry, And the Armada
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Wherefore they rode to Vesta's door, I know, but may not tell. Here, hard by Vesta's Temple, Build we a stately dome Unto the Great Twin Bretliren Who fought so well for Rome. And when the months returning Bring back this day of fight, ' -. The proud Ides of Quintilis, Mark(>d evermore with white, THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE BEGILLUS. 119 Unto tlie Great Twin Brethren Let all the people throng, With chaplets and with offerings, With music and with song ; And let the doors and windows Be hung witli g...arlands all, And let the Knights be sunnnoned To Mars without the wall ; Thence let them ride in purple With joyous trumpet-sound, Each mounted on his war-horse, And each with olive crowned ; And pass in solemn order Before the sacred dome, Where dwell the Great Twin Brethren Who fought so well for Home ! ' 120 LAYS OF ANCIENT EOME. VIRGINIA. A COLLECTION consisting exclusively of war-songs would give an imperfect, or rather an erroneous, notion of the spirit of the old Latin ballads. The Patricians, during more than a century after the expulsion of the Kings, held all the high military commands.
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