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Æn. I. And, with hard Labour, Alba-longa build; The Throne with his Succession shall be fill'd, Three hundred Circuits more: then shall be seen, Ilia the fair, a Priestess and a Queen. Who full of Mars, in time, with kindly Throws, Shall at a Birth two goodly Boys disclose. The Royal Babes a tawny Wolf shall drain, Then Romulus his Grandsire's Throne shall gain, Of Martial Tow'rs the Founder shall become, The People Romans call; the City Rome. To them, no Bounds of Empire I assign; Nor term of Years to their immortal Line. Ev'n haughty Juno, who, with endless Broils, Earth, Seas, and Heav'n, and Jove himself turmoils; At length atton'd, her friendly Pow'r shall joyn, To cherish and advance the Trojan Line. The subjećt World shall Rome's Dominion own, And, prostrate, shall adore the Nation of the Gown. An Age is ripening in revolving Fate, When Troy shall overturn the Grecian State: And sweet Revenge her conqu'ring Sons shall call, To crush the People that conspir'd her Fall. Then Cæsar from the Julian Stock shall rise, Whose Empire Ocean, and whose Fame the Skies Alone shall bound. Whom, fraught with Eastern Spoils, Our Heav'n, the just Reward of Human Toyls, Securely shall repay with Rites Divine; And Incense shall ascend before his sacred Shrine.