Virgil - Aeneid

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Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!

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More various colours thro' his body run,
Than Iris when her bow imbibes the sun.

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If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.

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A loftier task the bard essays:
The horizon broadens on his gaze.

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If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

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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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Each in pathetic suppliance stands,
So may he first be ferried o'er,
And stretches out his helpless hands
In yearning for the further shore.

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So travelers in a forest move
With but the uncertain moon above,
Beneath her niggard light.

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As long as rivers shall run down to the sea, or shadows touch the mountain slopes, or stars graze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your honor, your name, your praises endure.

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The proffered medicine but provoked the pain.

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Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew.

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Hereupon he stopped and snatched up in his hand a bow and swift arrows, the weapons that trusty Achates carried.

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Yet still despond not, but proceed
Along the path where Fate may lead.

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Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues,
And throats of brass, inspired with iron lungs,
I could not half those horrid crimes repeat,
Nor half the punishments those crimes have met.

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There are two gates of Sleep. One is of horn, easy of passage for the shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to ascend to the upper air.

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Think you these tears, this pompous train of woe,
Are known or valued by the ghosts below?

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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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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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"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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This gift which parents to their children owe,
This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!

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Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.

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Thus having said, she turn'd, and made appear
Her neck refulgent, and disheveled hair,
Which, flowing from her shoulders, reached the ground,
And widely spread ambrosial scents around.
In length of train descends her sweeping gown;
And by her graceful walk the Queen of Love is known.

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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

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There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.

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By length of time
The scurf is worn away of each committed crime;
No speck is left of their habitual stains,
But the pure ether of the soul remains.

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How greatly changed from that Hector who came back arrayed in the armour of Achilles!

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Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?

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Dismiss these anxieties from your mind.

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Arms! arms! my friends, with speed my arms supply,
'Tis our last hour, and summons us to die;
My arms!—in vain you hold me,—let me go—
Give, give me back this moment to the foe.
'Tis well—we will not tamely perish all,
But die revenged, and triumph in our fall.

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