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Rh But, as she slept, before her eyes

She saw in pallid ghastly guise

Her lord's unburied semblance rise;

The murderous altar he revealed,

The death-wound, gaping and unhealed,

And all the crime the house concealed:

Then bids her fly without delay,

And shows, to aid her on her way,

His buried treasures, stores untold

Of silver and of massy gold.

She heard, and, quickened by affright,

Provides her friends and means of flight.

Each malcontent her summons hears,

Who hates the tyrant, or who fears;

The ships that in the haven rode

They seize, and with the treasures load:

Pygmalion's stores o'er ocean speed,

And woman's daring wrought the deed.

The spot they reached where now your eyes

See Carthage-towers in beauty rise:

There bought them soil, such space of ground

As one bull's hide could compass round;

There fixed their site; and Byrsa's name

Preserves the action fresh in fame.

But who are you? to whom allied?

Whence bound and whither?' Deep he sighed,

And thus with labouring speech replied:

'Fair Goddess! should thy suppliants show

From first to last their tale of woe,

Or ere it ceased the day were done,

And closed the palace of the sun.

We from old Troy, if Tyrian ear

Have chanced the name of Troy to hear,

Driven o'er all seas, are thrown at last

On Libya's coast by chance-sent blast.