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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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Each look is pictured in her breast,
Each word: nor passion lets her rest.
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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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Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.
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What perils his from war and sea!
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I yield to Fate, unwillingly retire,
And, loaded, up the hill convey my sire.
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Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!
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A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.
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He prays to the spirit of the place and to Earth, the first of the gods, and to the Nymphs and as yet unknown rivers.
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Like rock engirdled by the sea,
Like rock immovable is he.
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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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We fear not more the winds and wintry cold,
Than streams the banks, or wolves the bleating fold.
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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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Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you?
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No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
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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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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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It's not in my power to decide such a great dispute between you.
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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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Turnus, what never god would dare
To promise to his suppliant's prayer,
Lo here, the lapse of time has brought
E'en to your hands, unasked, unsought.
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Virgil
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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