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Rh When Juno, feeding ever more

The vulture at her bosom's core,

Thus to herself begun:

'I to give way? has Juno willed,

And must her will he unfulfilled?

Too weak from Latium's coast to fling

Back to the sea this Trojan king?

Restrained by Fate? Could Pallas fire

The Argive fleet to wreak her ire,

And drown the crews, for one offence,

Mad Ajax' curst incontinence?

She from the clouds Jove's lightning cast,

Dispersed the ships, the billows massed,

Caught the scathed wretch, whose breast exhaled

Fierce flames, and on a rock impaled:

I who through heaven its mistress move,

The sister and the wife of Jove,

With one poor tribe of earth contend

Long years revolving without end.

Will any Juno's power adore

Henceforth, or crown her altars more?'

Such fiery tumult in her mind,

She seeks the birthplace of the wind,

Æolia, realm for ever rife

With turbid elemental life:

Here Æolus in a cavern vast

With bolt and barrier fetters fast

Rebellious storm and howling blast.

They with the rock's reverberant roar

Chafe blustering round their prison-door:

He, throned on high, the sceptre sways,

Controls their moods, their wrath allays.

Break but that sceptre, sea and land

And heaven's etherial deep