The Aeneid of Virgil Translated Into English Verse
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By heaven's command put straight to sea Placed 'neath a foreign chief. First sails Eneas' royal ship : The Phrygian lions arm her tip. And Ida spreads its shade above. The hill that Teucrian exiles love. There sits ^Eneas on the stern. The tides that make the war to turn Deep pondering o'er and o'er ; BOOK X. 353 And Pallas, ever at his side, Asks of the stars, the night-fare's guide, Or questions of his wanderings wide On ocean and on shore. Now, Muses, ope your Helicon, The gates of song expa...nd ; Say what the host to war comes on From forth the Etruscan strand, And, following in Eneas' train. Spreads sail, and navigates the main. See Massicus the foremost guide His Tiger o'er the deep ; A thousand warriors at his side In Clusium's lofty towers that bide And Cosffi's warlike keep : Light quivers from their shoulders hang, Their deadly bows in combat twang. Grim Abas next ; his followers bold In gleaming steel arrayed ; High on his stern, a blaze of gold, Apollo shone displayed. Six hundred Populonia gave To share his fortunes, tried and brave, And Ilva sends three hundred more, Rich island-home of Chalyb ore.
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