Aeneid
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Arms and the man I sing, who first made way,
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predestined exile, from the Trojan shore
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to Italy, the blest Lavinian strand.
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Smitten of storms he was on land and sea
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by violence of Heaven, to satisfy
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stern Juno's sleepless wrath; and much in war
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he suffered, seeking at the last to found
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the city, and bring o'er his fathers' gods
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to safe abode in Latium; whence arose
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the Latin race, old Alba's reverend lords,
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and from her hills wide-walled, imperial Rome.
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O Muse, the causes tell! What sacrilege,
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or vengeful sorrow, moved the heavenly Queen
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to thrust on dangers dark and endless toil
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a man whose largest honor in men's eyes
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was serving Heaven? Can gods such anger feel?
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In ages gone an ancient city stood—
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Carthage, a Tyrian seat, which from afar
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made front on Italy and on the mouths
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of Tiber's stream; its wealth and revenues
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were vast, and ruthless was its quest of war.
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'T is said that Juno, of all lands she loved,
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most cherished this,—not Samos' self so dear.
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Here were her arms, her chariot; even then
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a throne of power o'er nations near and far,
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if Fate opposed not, 't was her darling hope
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to 'stablish here; but anxiously she heard
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that of the Trojan blood there was a breed
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then rising, which upon the destined day
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should utterly o'erwhelm her Tyrian towers,
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a people of wide sway and conquest proud
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should compass Libya's doom;—such was the web
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the Fatal Sisters spun. Such was the fear
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of Saturn's daughter, who remembered well
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what long and unavailing strife she waged
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for her loved Greeks at Troy. Nor did she fail
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to meditate th' occasions of her rage,
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and cherish deep within her bosom proud
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its griefs and wrongs: the choice by Paris made;
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her scorned and slighted beauty; a whole race
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rebellious to her godhead; and Jove's smile
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that beamed on eagle-ravished Ganymede.
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With all these thoughts infuriate, her power
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pursued with tempests o'er the boundless main
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the Trojans, though by Grecian victor spared
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and fierce Achilles; so she thrust them far
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from Latium; and they drifted, Heaven-impelled,
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year after year, o'er many an unknown sea—
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O labor vast, to found the Roman line!
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Below th' horizon the Sicilian isle
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just sank from view, as for the open sea
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with heart of hope they sailed, and every ship
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clove with its brazen beak the salt, white waves.
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But Juno of her everlasting wound
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knew no surcease, but from her heart of pain
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thus darkly mused: “Must I, defeated, fail
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of what I will, nor turn the Teucrian King
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from Italy away? Can Fate oppose?
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Had Pallas power to lay waste in flame
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the Argive fleet and sink its mariners,
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revenging but the sacrilege obscene
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by Ajax wrought, Oileus' desperate son?
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She, from the clouds, herself Jove's lightning threw,
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scattered the ships, and ploughed the sea with storms.
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Her foe, from his pierced breast out-breathing fire,
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in whirlwind on a deadly rock she flung.
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But I, who move among the gods a queen,
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Jove's sister and his spouse, with one weak tribe
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make war so long! Who now on Juno calls?
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What suppliant gifts henceforth her altars crown?”
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So, in her fevered heart complaining still,
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unto the storm-cloud land the goddess came,
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a region with wild whirlwinds in its womb,
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Aeolia named, where royal Aeolus
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in a high-vaulted cavern keeps control
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o'er warring winds and loud concourse of storms.
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There closely pent in chains and bastions strong,
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they, scornful, make the vacant mountain roar,
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chafing against their bonds. But from a throne
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of lofty crag, their king with sceptred hand
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allays their fury and their rage confines.
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Did he not so, our ocean, earth, and sky
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were whirled before them through the vast inane.
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But over-ruling Jove, of this in fear,
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hid them in dungeon dark: then o'er them piled
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huge mountains, and ordained a lawful king
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to hold them in firm sway, or know what time,
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with Jove's consent, to loose them o'er the world.
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To him proud Juno thus made lowly plea:
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“Thou in whose hands the Father of all gods
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and Sovereign of mankind confides the power
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to calm the waters or with winds upturn,
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great Aeolus! a race with me at war
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now sails the Tuscan main towards Italy,
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bringing their Ilium and its vanquished powers.
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Uprouse thy gales. Strike that proud navy down!
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Hurl far and wide, and strew the waves with dead!
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Twice seven nymphs are mine, of rarest mould;
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of whom Deiopea, the most fair,
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I give thee in true wedlock for thine own,
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