[Written at the request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil’s death, B.C. 19.]

I.
ROMAN Virgil, thou that singest
    Ilion’s lofty temples robed in fire,
Ilion falling, Rome arising,
    wars, and filial faith, and Dido’s pyre;

II.
Landscape-lover, lord of language
    more than he that sang the Works and...