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Rh and his crew refreshment—and the result will not be doubtful.

The advice suits with the queen's new mood too well to be rejected. Together the sisters offer pious sacrifices to the gods—to Juno especially, as the goddess of marriage—to give their sanction to the hoped-for alliance. The restless feelings of the enamoured woman are described in one of the finest and most admired passages of the poem:—

E'en as a deer whom from afar

A swain, in desultory war,

Where Cretan woods are thick,

Has pierced, as 'mid the trees she lies,

And, all unknowing of his prize,

Has left the dart to stick:

She wanders lawn and forest o'er,

While the fell shaft still drinks her gore.

Now through the city of her pride

She walks, Æneas at her side,

Displays the stores of Sidon's trade,

And stately homes already made:

Begins, but stops she knows not why,

And lets the imperfect utterance die.

Now, as the sunlight wears away,

She seeks the feast of yesterday,

Inquires once more of Troy's eclipse,

And hangs once more upon his lips;

Then, when the guests have gone their ways,

And the dim moon withdraws her rays,