• From the Latin by Sir Charles Bowen
    From The “Æneid”
    ÆNEAS, speaking to Dido, Queen of Carthage
    FORWARD we fare,
    Called to the palace of Priam by war-shouts rending the air.

    Here of a truth raged battle, as though no combats beside
    Reigned elsewhere, no thousands about all Ilion died.
    Here we beheld in his fury the war-god; foemen the roof...