The gsesisil, ausa aad best, yon can rataHre,
The gods» and year aw* eanecione worth, wiU giva.
The rest ana gratrfol genesal will bii tsw $
Ao4 yoong Asaankis ^ hi» sianbeed owe.'*
'< And I, whose welfare in ny father liee»*»
Aiyaaius aiMs, "^ by the great deities^
By viy dear coonti^, by any hoasehold godi^
By hoary Vesla*» rites, and daeh abodes^
A^jnre yea bath (ow yon my fostooe ttuidSy
That and my bkh I pligbt into year bands:)
Make om h«t happy ia his nfe relum^
Whose wanted prseeaee I oaa only naum,
Vnv asaunan pft shall tno brge psbkts be,
Of silver, wrought with curious imagery ;
And high e«kbo^ which, wbea eM Priam reigoSI,
My conqueriog sire at sacked Arisba gained.
Andjnofa, two brtpods cast ia snticpie raonkl.
With two great taleots of the finest goM t
Besidi aeoatly bowl, engvar'd with art.
Which Bide gave wben «rit she gava her heart.
Bat if in cooquer'd Italy we reign,
When spoOa by k>t tbe vMster shall oblai%
Tbea saw's! the coatstr by proad Turans prsss^d,
Ibat, Nisos, and his ams, and nodding crssi,
lAid sUeU, ftaas chance easaipt, shaU be tby
^ ~-i iM^liiir,
TVwua labouring slaves, twalre haadmaids yeoQg
Aad^kal oi rich attirs, aad traia'd with cara.
Aid last, a Latiaa <lskl with ftnsilfnl pkine,
^And a large portion of the king*8 doai a ms i
Bot thoo, wbsss years aiw wore to mim a>yd,
Ko fate my vosHd adfeetk»» shall ditide
Y^wnthee^ ksfoieyaatb; be wboUy adne i
Me faU possession) attmy soalisthinib
One fiuth, oae fiuae, eae iMe, shaB both attend j
Mr Hfi'seempaokMi, aad my heaom friend;
My peeoe shall be eomasitted ta thy case,
^nd to thy ceadnot my oomsems in war.**
Then thus the yoong Saryalas reply'd i
lWhat««arlhftane,goedorbad, betide,
^•SBMshaHbemyage, asaew my youth;
Nf tiaiesball fli^ me wantiog to my truth.
^ '* This only from your goodness let me gain
Uad this angranted» aU rewards aes vak :)
vf Priam'ft n^al race my mother came,
^ima the beet that eaev bora the name s
^^^ neither Troy, oer Sicily, oanU bold
Ffoin Be departing, but, e^enpeat and oki,
Mrltts she IblloWd; ignoraatt of this,
~NfWir*>yyr^ Mitkey|f^tiB9h9gv
ypc nitty hl sid n» tais % BerHmrfa;
And, in this only ae» df all my lifev ^l^oeira.
By thig fight bead, and canso aas nighty I swear»
My soul so sad a iunaweU could net beasL
Beyoirberoamlbrt; fill my vaoaat pIaoe»
(Persskma to prwume so grsat a grace)
Support her age, forsaken and dbtrem*d;
That hep^ akine will fortify my breast
Against the worst of fartuaee^ ami of fears.'*
He said: the mov'd assistants mek in tears.
Then tbaaAecaaius (weoder-straek to sea
That image of hb filial piety) :
** So great beginnbgs, ia m green an aga,
Exact the fhkh, wbudi I again engage^
Thy mother all the dues shall justly daia
Creiisa had ; and only want the name.
Wluite'ee event thy boM attempt shall bavob
Tis merit ta hare borne a so* so brafvok
Nonhymyhead, asaoredaath, I swear,
(My father xaNi it) what refeaming here,
Crown'd witbaaccese, I for thyself arepara,
That, if tbrasfoil, abaH thy h>a*d mother shares'*'
Hesakl; and, weepuig while bespoke the word»
From bia beoad belt ha dsew a ibiidng saK)ffd»
Magnifieeat with gold. Ljpcaon made.
And in an ivory scabbard 8beatb^d the blade :
Tfaiawaabiagtilt gveatMnesftkaoafsaa biafieaai
A lkm*s fasde^ hU bedy tadsfond :
And good AMbetlbmish'd Urn bssidsv
With bia earn trus|y helm, of temper t«y^
ThiiaanBM they went The noble Trcgaae wall
Tbeir issuing forth, and follow to tbe gsta.
• Wi^ pcayers aad aewa, above the resfe appeess
Ascanius, manly for beyond bis years.
And oMssageacommilted totkeir caia,
Whk:h all in winds were lost, aad fikting ab. [wai^
natpenohesfinttkeypass'd; then took theia
Where their ptand files in pitch^ pavilkms lay ;
To many fetal, ere themsetres were slain < [plain.
They fimipd tbe cassless best dispers'd apon the
Who^ gorg'd, and drank witb wiae, supiaely snova :
ttsbaraessNI eherfots stand along tbe sbeeei
Amidst the wheels aad reasB, tbe goblet by,
A medley of debaueb andf war tbey lie.
Observing Nisne sh ear e d his friend the sight ;
« Behold a con^aest gam*d without afi^ht i
Occesien ofief«, and I stand psepai^d:
There Kes oar way ; be thoa npon tkegnaafi,
Aad look asoaad, while I aecarely go.
And hew a pasmge through the tieepiag fee.**
Softly he spoke ; then, stridtng; took bss way,
Witb his drawn sword, wbere haughty Kbaamai
Qis head tais'd high, on tapestry beneatbg f lap}
And heaving foem his breast, he drew his bmatkt
A king and prophet by king Taraus lor'd ;
lot fete by presoieooe cannot be rsoorHI ;
Him, and his sleeping slaves, he slew. Thea^pict
Whme Rbemus, with bis rich rstkrae, Hm i
Hie armoar« b ea i f e r first, aad aext be kiHa
His charioteer, entrench*d betwixt the wheels
And hb for*d boiaefr) Inst invades tbeir kifd| "
Full on his nock he drives tbe fetal sword :
The gasping bead fiies off; a parple fiood
Flows from the trank, that welters in the blood r
Which, by the spandng keels, dispers'd aroaad^
Tbe bad besprinkles, aad bedews tbe graoad.
Lamas the bokl, and Lamjrrus the strong.
He slew; and then Serranus, feir and yoan§».
Ftam dice and witte the youth rstir\l to rsst.
And pnff*d the fumy god fiop out hb hiagit :
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Ev'n tbcn he dretmt of drink and liieliy plqr>
More lackjT had H laitod till tbm dajr*
.The Immiih'd lion thus, with hanger boM,
O'erieaps the fences of the nightly M4,
AoA tears the peaceful flocks; with silent awa
IVembling tbey lie, and pant beneath his paw»
Nor with less rage Raryalus emplojrs
The wrathful sword, or fewer foes destroys ^
But on th' ignoble crowd his fury flew :
He Fadus, Hebesus, and Rhsstus slew.
Oppressed with heavy sleep the former felly
But RhsDtus, wakeful, and observing all.
Behind a spacious jar he slink'd for fear:
The fatal iron found, and reach*d him there.
]^, as he rose, it pierc'd hit naked side,
And, reeking, thence returned in crimson dy'd.
Tbe womid pours out a stream of wine and blood :
The purple soul comes floating in the flood.
Now where Messapus quarter'd they arrive ;
The fires were feintiug there, and just alive.
The warrior-horses tied hi order fed ;
Kisus observed the discipline, and said :
** Our eager thirst of blood may both betray;
And see the scattered streaks of dawning day.
Foe to nocturnal thefts : no more, my friend*
Here let our glutted execution end :
Jl. lane through slaughter^ bodies we have made :"
The bold Ruryalus, though loth, obey'd.
Of arms, and arras, and of plate, they find
A precious load ; but tbese tbey leave behind.
Yet, fond of gaudy spoils, the boy would stay
To make the rich caparison his prey.
Which on tbe steed of conquered Rhamnes lay.
Nor did his eyes less longingly behold
The girdle belt, with naib of bumishM gold.
This present Ceidicus tbe rich bestow'd
On Remulus, when friendship first they vow*d :
And absent, joined in hospitable ties ;
He dying, to bis heir bequeathM the prize :
Till by the conquering Ardean troops opprest.
He fell ; and they the glorious gift poness'd.
These glittering spoils (now made the victor^ S^)
He to his body suits ; but suits in vain.
Messapus' helm he finds aoMOg the rest.
And laces on, and wears the waving crest.
Proud of their conquest, prouder of their prry.
They leave the camp, and take the ready way.
But fer they had not passed, before they spy'd
Three hundred horse, with Volscens for their guide.
The queen a legion to king Tumus sent.
But the swift horse the slow er foot prevent :
And now, advancing, sought the leader's tent
lliey saw the pair ; for, thro* the doubtful shade.
His shining helm Enryalus betray'd.
On which the Moon with full reflection play*d.
" Tis not for nought," ciy'd Volscens, from the
crowd,
** These men go there ;** then rais'd his voice aloud :
*' Stand, stand ? why thus in arms, and whither
bent?
From whence, to whom, and on what errand sent ?"
Silent they scud away, and haste their flight
To neighbouring woods, and trust themselves to
The speedy horse all passages belay, [night.
And spur their smoking steeds to croas their way.
And watch each entrance of the winding wood ;
Black was the forest, thick with beech it stood ;
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
Few paths of human feet or tracks of beasts were
. worn.
The dariuMM of the tbadfli, Ms bteivy ff«9^
And fear, misled the younger froos his way*
But Nisns hit the turns with happier haste,
And, thoughtless of his firiend, the forest pass'ds
And Alban plains, froaa Alba*s nanse so odl*d,
Where king latinus then his oxen stallVL
Till, turning at the length, be stood his ground.
And miss'd his friend, and cast his eyes around :
" Ah, wretch !» he cry'd, « where have I left
behind
Th* unhappy youth ? where shall I hope to fliri }
Or what way take !" Agam he ventnies back:
And treads tbe majses of his former track.
He winds the wood, and listening hears the wAm
Of trampling coursers, and the rider*s voice.
The sound approach'd, and suddenly he view'd
The foes enclosing, and his friend parso*d:
Forelay'd and taken, while he strove, m vah^
The shdter of the friendly shades to gain.
What should he nextattempt ? Whatarms enploj?
What fhiitless force to free the captive bey !
Or desperate should he rush, and lose his li£^
With odds oppress, in such unequal strife }
Resolv'd at length, his pointed spear he took;
And, casting on the Moon a mournful look,
" Guardian of groves, and goddess of the night.
Fair queen," he said, " direct my dart aright:
If e*er my pious fether, for my sake.
Did grateful ofierings on thy altars make j
Or I increas'd them with my sylvan toils.
And hung the holy rood with savage tpoili»
Give me to scatter these.*' Then fk^ his ear
He pois*d, and aim'd, and laach'd the ArcabliRt
spear.
The deadly weapon, hissing from the grove.
Impetuous on the back of Sulmo drove;
Pierc'd his thin armour, drank his vital bloody
And in his body left the broken wood.
He staggers round ; bis ey»>balls roll in death.
And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.
All stand amaz'd ; a second javelin flies
With equal strength, and quivers through the skies?
This through thy temples, Tagus, fbrc'd the way.
And in the brain-pan warmly buried lay.
Fierce Volscens foams with rage, and gaxing ronnd^
Descry'd not him who gave the fatal wound :
Nor knew to fix revenge : *' But thou,*' he crie%
" Shalt pay for both !" and at the prisoner flies
With his drawn sword. Then, struck with de9
despair.
That cruel sight the lover could not bear :
But from his covert rush'd in open view.
And sent his voice before him as he flew :
** Me, me,*? hecry'd, " turn all yoar swoids akM»
On me! the feet confest, the feult my own.
He neither could, nor durst, the guiltless youth;
Ye Moor and Stars, bear witness to the truth !
His only crime (if ftiendship can oflfend)
Is too much love to his unhappy friend."
Too late he speaks ; the sword, which fury gm'dev
Driven with full force had pierc'd his tender sides.
Down fell the beauteous youth; the jrawning
wound
Gusli'd out a purple stream, and stain'd the groood
His bnowy neck reclines upon hip breast.
Like a fair flower by the keen share oppress'd :
Like a white poppy sinking on tbe plain.
Whose heavy bead is overcharged with rain.
Despair, and rage, and vengeance justly vowM,
Drove Nisii$ headlong on the hostile crowd ;
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Bome beck, end bor^d, by bit turrounding frieadf ,
Onwefd be prett'd, end kept him ftill in eight -,
Then whirt'd aloft bis sword with ell his might :
Tb' nnerring eteel descended while he spoke,
Pierc*d hit wide month, end through bit weazen
broke:
Dying be flew ; and, staggering on the plain.
With swimming eyet he sought hit lorer dain :
Then quiet on hit bleeding boeom fell ;
Content in death to be reveng*d so well.
O happy friends ! for, if my verse can giYn
Immortal life, your hmt shall ever live :
Fixt as the capitors Ibondation lies ;
And spread where'er the Roman eagle Bies !
The conquering party first divide the prey.
Then their slain leader to the camp convey.
With wonder, as they went, the troops were filPd,
To tee such numbers whom so few had kill'd.
Serraons, Rhamnes, and the rest, they found :
Vast crowds tbe dyins and the d«Ml surround ;
And the yet reeking Mood overflows the ground.
AU knew the helmet which Metsapus lost ;
But monm*d a purchase that to dear had cost.
Now rote the vaAAy Bfom feom Tithon't bed;
And, with tbe dawn of day, the skiet overspread.
Nor long the Son hit daily course withheld.
But added colours to the world rereard.
When early T^mnt, wakening with the light,
M clad in armour, callt hit troopt to fight
His martial men with fierce harangnet he fir*d ;
And hit owo ardour in their toub inspiPd.
This done, to give new terronr to his foes,
The beads of Kisus and hb friend be shows,
naisM high on pointed spears : a ghastly sight ;
Loud peals of shouts eutue, and barbarous delight
Meantime the Trqiant run, where danger calls :
They Inie their trenchet, and they man their walls :
In front esctended to the left they stood :
Safe was the right, surrounded by the flood.
Bat casting from their towers a frightful view.
They saw the feces which too well they knew $
Tho* then disguis'd m death, and smear'd all o'er
With filth obKsene, and dropping putrid gore.
Soon hasty feme through the sad city bears
The mournful message to tbe mother's ears :
An icy cold benomhs her limbs : she shakes :
Her cheeks the blood, her hand the web forsakes.
She runs the ram;/ires round amidst the war.
Nor fears the flying darts : she rends her hair.
And filli with loudiam^ts the liquid air.
'* Thus, then, my lov*d Euryalus appears *
Thus koks the prop ef my declining yean !
Was 't on this fece my femish'd eyes I fed !
Ah, how uolike the living is the dead !
Andcoold*st thon leave me, cruel, thus alone.
Not one kind kiss from a departing son !
No look, no last adiey, before he went.
In an ill-boding hour to slaughter sent !
Cold on th; grouoid, and pressing foreign clay.
To Litian dogs and fowls be lies a prey !
Nor was 1 near to close his djring eyes,
To.wash his wounds, to weep his obsequies:
To call about his corpse his crjring friends,
Or spread the mantle (made for other ends)
On his dear body, which I wove with care,
Nor did my daily pains, or nightly labour, spare.
Where shall I find his corpse? What earth sus-
fiii tronk dHmember'd, and his cold remahw?
For this, alas ! I left my needful ease.
Exposed my life to winds, and winter seas!
If any pity touch Rutulian hearts,
Here empty all your quivers, all your darts r
Or if they fail, thou, Jove, conclude my woe.
And send me thunder-struck to shades below!"
Her shrieks and clamours'pierce.the Tirojans* ear%
Unman their courage, and augment their fears :
Nor young Ascanhis could the sight sustain^
Nor old Ilioneus his tears restram :
But Actor and Idseus, jointly sent.
To bear the madding mother to her tent
And now the trumpets, terribly from fer,
With rattling clangour, rouse the sleepy war.
Tbe soMiers' shouts succeed tbe brazen sounds.
And Heaven, from pole to pole, their hoise re»
bounds.
The Vobcbns bear their shields upon their head.
And, rushing forward, form a moving tStied;
These fill the ditch; those pull the bulwarks •
down:
Some rais^ the ladders ; others scale the town.
But where void spaces on the walls appear.
Or thin defence, they pour their forces there.
"^Vith poles and missive 'weapons, from afar.
The Trnjans keep aloof tbe rising war.
1%nght by their ten years' siege defensive fight.
They roll down ribs of rocks, and unresisted weights
To break the penthouse with the ponderous blow j
Which yet the patient Volscians undergo^
Bot could not bear th* unequal combat long ;
For where the Trojaos find the thickest throng.
The ruin falls : their shatter'd shields give way^
And their croshM heads became an easy prey.
They shrink for fear, abated of their lag^
Nor longer dare in a blind fight engage ;
Contented now to gall them fVom below
With darts and slins^s, and with the distant bow*
Elseaberc Mezcntius, terrible to view,
A blazing pine within the trenches threw.
But brave Messapus, Neptune *s warlike sen.
Broke down the palisad'^, the trenches won.
And loud for ladders calls to scale the town.
Calliope begin : ye sacred Nine,
Inspire jroor poet in his high design ;
To sing what slaughter manly IHimus made :
What souls he sent below the Stygian shade :
What feme the soldiers with their <iaptain shares
And the vast circuit of the fatal wan
For you in singing martial facts excel ;
You best remember ; and alone can telt
There stood a tower, amazing to the siidit.
Built op of beams, and of stupendous height;
Art, and the nature of the place, conspirM
To furnish all the strength that war rcquir*d.
To level this, the bold Italians join !
The wary Trojans obviate their design :
With weighty stones o*erwhelm*d their troops below.
Shoot thro^ the loop holes, and sharp javelins throw.
Tomus, the chief, tossM from his thundering haod^
Against the wooden walls, a flaming brand :
It stuck, the fiery plague : the winds were high;
The planks were seasoned, and the timber dry.
Contagion caught the posts : it spread along,
ScorchM, and to distance drove the scattered
N throng. /
The Trepans fled ; the fire pursuM amain.
Still gathering fiist upon the trembling train |
TiH, crowding to the comers -of the wall,
Do\ni the defencCi and the defenders, felL '
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The mighty §«w mata Be«fai iUelf raiDmid.
This dead ana dy\xkg lYcjaiu strew the grQund*
The tower that MllowM oo the £illeo crew,
Whehn'd o'er their heads, and bury'd whom it slaw s
Some stuck upon the darts themselves had sent;
All the same equal rain underwent
Young Lyctts and Helenor only 'scape ;
Sav'd, bow they know not, from the steepy lea^
Helenor, elder of the two ; by birth.
On one side royal,^ one a son of earth,
Whom, to the Lydian. king, Lycimaia hare.
And sent h^r boasted bastard, to the war
(A privilege which none but freemen share).
Slight were his arms, a sword and silver shield.
No marks of honour charged its empty field.
Light as he fell, so lij^ht the youth arose.
And, rising, found himself amidst his foes.
K()r flight was left, nor hopes to force his way;
Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay :
And like a stag^ whom all the troop surroundt
Of eager huntsmen, and invading bounds,
Kesolv'd on death, he dissipates his fears.
And hounds aloft against the pointed spears :
So dares the youths secure of death, and throwa
His dying body on his thickest foes^
But Lycus, swifter of his feet by far,
Kun^ doubles, winds; and turns« amidst the war :
l^pangs to the walU« and leaves hi& foes behind.
And snatches at the beam he first can find.
I^eoks up, and leaps aloft at all the stretch,
In hopes tbe helping hand of some kind friend to
reach.
BufTumus followed hard his hunted prey,
(His spear had almost reached him in tbe way,
Short of his reins, and scarce a span behind) :
** Fool," said the chief; ** tho' fleeter than the wind,
Could'stthou presume to 'scape when I pursue V*
He said, and downward by the feet he drew
The trembling dastard : at tbe tug he falls.
Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
Thus on some silver swan, or timorous hare,
Jove's bird comes sousing down from upper air;
Her crooked talons truss the fearful fray :
Then out of sight she soars, and wings her way.
So seizes the grim wolf the tender lamb^
In vain lamented by the bleating dam.
Then rushing onward, with a barbarous cry,
The troops of Turnus to the combat fly.
The ditch with faggots filPd, the daring foe
Tost iirebrauds to the steepy turrets throw.
Hilioneus, as bold Luectius came
To force the gate, and feed the kindling flame,
Boll'd dowD the fragment of a rock so right.
It cnisli'd him <louble underneath the weight.
Two more young Liger and Asylas slew ;
To bend the bow young I jger better knew :
Asylas best the pointed javelin threw.
Brave Cseneas laid Ortygius on the plain;
The victor Csmeas was by Turnus slain.
By the same baud, Clonius and Itys fall,
Sagar and Ida, standinfi: on the wall.
Prom Capys' arms his fate Privernus found ;
Hurt by Tbemilla first, but slight the wound ;
His shield thrown by, to mitigate the smart.
He clapp'd his hand upon the wounded part :
The second shaft came swift and unespy'd,
And piercM his hand, and nail'd it to his side ;
TransfixM his breathing lungs, and beating: heart ;
The fOul came issuing out, and hisi*d against the
dart.
The S09 of AiceaaihoM aaMd tfcft fail»
In |Uttf ring arOKMit and a pnrpla vatl^
Pair waa bis fact, hiaoyoaiaspiriaf love.
Bred by his fethar in the Martian grofer
Where tik £at aUaia d Palicus flamo,
And vmlt in anos to pu^^ave early faosa^
Him when he spy'd from far, the Tbuncam king
Laid b|r ^he la«ce, aiKl took km to the sliag :
Thrice whirl'd the thong around hii head, aad
The heated lead, half melted as it flow : [thnU
It pierc'd his hollow temples and hia brain;
The youth came tuB(&blii\g down, and spura'd Iba
plain*
Then young Ascawus, who bafbre this d»y
Wa5 woQt in woods to shoot ^be savage prey.
First bent in martial strife the twan^ng bow;
And exercis'd against a human fix.
With this bereft Numanus of his lifa.
Who Turnus' younger sister took to wife.
Proud of bis realm, and of hia royal bride, [itridt.
Vaunting before bis troops, and lengtbeo'd with a
In these insulting terms the Tlrojans he defj'd :
" Twice conquer'd cowards, now your shame ia
shown,
Coop'd up a second time within yonr town!
Who dare not is«ue forth in open field.
But hold your walls before you for a shield.
Thus threat you war, thus our aHianee fbroe !
What gods, what madness hither stetr'd year
You shall not find ihfi sons of Atreua here, [coonat
Nor need the frauds of sly Vlysses fear.
Strong from the cradle, of a sturdy brood.
We bear our new-bom iofiemts to the flood;
There, bath'd amid the stream, our boys wt hek^
With winter harden'd, and inur'd to cold.
They wake before the day to range the wood.
Kill ere they eat, nor taste unconquer'd food.
No sports but what belong to war they know,
I'o break the stubborn colt, to bend the bow.
Our youth, of labour patient, cam their bread ;
Hardly they work, with frugal diet fJed.
From ploughs and harrows sent to seek renown,
They fight in fields, and storm the shaken town.
No part of life from toils of war is free ;
No change in age, or difierence in degree.
We plough, and till in arms ; our oxen feel.
Instead of goads, the spur, and pointed steel:
Th' invert^ lance makes furrows in the plain; ^
Ev'n time, that changes all, yet changes us in vaia}
The body, not the muul : nor can control
Th' immortal vigour, or abate the soul.
Our helms defend the young, disguise the greys
We live by plunder, and delight in prey.
Your vests embroider'd with rich purple shine ;
In sloth you glory, and in dances join. [prida
Your vests have sweeping sleeves : with fonalff
Your turbans underneath your chins are ty'd.
Go, Phrygians, to your Dindymus agen ;
Go, less than women, in the shapes c^ men ;
Go, mixt with eunuchs, in the mother^ rites.
Where with unequal sound the flute invites.
Sing, dance, and howl, by turns, in Ida's sbadt;
Resign the war to men, who know the martial
trade."
This foul i-eproach Ascanius could not hear
With patience, or a vow*d revenge forbear.
At the full stretch of both his hands, he drew.
And almost join'd the horns of tbe tough yew.
But first, before the throne of Jove he stood)
And thus with lifted bands ipivok'd tha fo4 1
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An anmoal offer ing in tby grove iball bleed t
A taow-wbite fteer before thy alter led,
Wbo» like hie mother, been aloft hie heed.
But with his threeteiikig bro#t, end bcUeerleg
Md dMvs the fight, e»d tpnrat tke yellowmidt."
Jove bow'd the Heavens, end lent « grecioiM eer,
And thuBder'd on the left, elsidst thr deer.
Soiroded at oaoe the bo« ; ead swiftly dies
The featber'd death, end biases throisgh the skiea.
The steel through both bis teeaples fore'd the wayi
Extended en the grouad Nanaaus ky.
" Oo DOW, Taia boaster, aad true valoar seoni ;
The Pbrygiaaa, twice subdaed, yet make this tbiid
Aseaoius said no monsi Che Trcgans shake {retnra.''
The Heavens with shoatiog, and new vigour take.