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These success encourages: they can because they think they can.
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Thrice would I have thrown my arms about her neck, and thrice the ghost embraced fled from my grasp: like a fluttering breeze, like a fleeting dream.
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The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame.
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Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming."
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Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to love.
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His limbs were cold in death; his spirit fled with a groan, indignant, to the shades below.
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Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
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Lo, great Marcellus! see him tower,
With kingly spoils in conquering power,
The warrior host above!
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Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel
Fate's book is closed and under seal.
For us, alas! that volume stern
Has many another page to turn.
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Learn of your father to be great,
Of others to be fortunate.
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And the most miserable things which I myself saw and of which I was a major part.
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Now has come the last age according to the oracle at Cumae; the great series of lifetimes starts anew. Now too the virgin goddess returns, the golden days of Saturn's reign return, now a new race is sent down from high heaven.
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My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave,
And now I pass, a queenly shade,
Majestic to the grave.
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In vain she strives with dying hands
To wrench away the blade:
Fixed in her ribs the weapon stands,
Closed by the wound it made.
Bloodless and faint, she gasps for breath;
Her heavy eyes sink down in death;
Her cheek's bright colors fade.
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Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.
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Now listen while my tongue declares
The tale you ask of Danaan snares,
And gather from a single charge
Their catalogue of crimes at large.
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An old story, but the glory of it is forever.
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Thus she spoke and turned away with a flash of her rosy neck, and her ambrosial hair exhaled a divine fragrance; her dress flowed right down to her feet and her true godhead was evident from her walk.
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Few in number, yet theirs is a valor ardent for war.
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Nor can we struggle or resist;
Come, let us bow to Fortune's sway,
And, as she beckons, shape our way.
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"Must I die," she said,
"And unreveng'd? 'tis doubly to be dead!
Yet even this death with pleasure I receive:
On any terms, 'tis better than to live."
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It's not in my power to decide such a great dispute between you.
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Starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground: Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow.
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Towards the ferry and the shore
The multitudinous phantoms pour;
Matrons, and men, and heroes dead,
And boys and maidens, yet unwed,
And youths who funeral fires have fed
Before their parents' eye.
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No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
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Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you?
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Along the illimitable shade
Darkling and lone their way they made,
Through the vast kingdom of the dead,
An empty void, though tenanted.
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We fear not more the winds and wintry cold,
Than streams the banks, or wolves the bleating fold.
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Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.
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I yield to Fate, unwillingly retire,
And, loaded, up the hill convey my sire.
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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
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Born:
October 13, 70 BC
Died:
September 19, 19 BC
(aged 51)
Bio:
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.
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