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Rh Thou, Ismarus, too wast seen to deal

With archer craft the envenomed steel

And quell their valiant powers,

Thy home Mæonia"s fruitful mould,

Made rich by labour and the gold

That bright Pactolus showers.

There too is Mnestheus, raised heaven-high

By Turnus made yestreen to fly,

And Capys, marked for future fame,

From whom fair Capua takes her name.

They all day long in fight had striven

With ceaseless toil and pain:

And now beneath a midnight heaven

Æneas ploughs the main.

For when, from good Evander sent,

He reached the Etruscan leader's tent,

Tells what his name and whence he springs,

What aid he asks, what powers he brings,

What arms are on Mezentius' side,

And Turnus' overweening pride,

And bids him think, with sighs and prayers,

What changes wait on man's affairs,

Not long the conference: Tarchon plights

His friendly troth, his force unites,

With action swift and brief:

The Lydian race, from fate set free,

By heaven's command put straight to sea

Placed 'neath a foreign chief.

First sails Æneas' royal ship:

The Phrygian lions arm her tip,

And Ida spreads its shade above,

The hill that Teucrian exiles love.

There sits Æneas on the stern,

The tides that make the war to turn

Deep pondering o'er and o'er;