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Maybe one day it will be cheering to remember even these things.
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A monster horrendous, hideous and vast, deprived of sight.
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As for my sepulchre, let Heaven take care.
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Ah fatal confidence, too prone
To trust in sea and sky!
A naked corpse on shores unknown
Shall Palinurus lie!
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'Tis weary to look up and see
The overarching sky.
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He stands immovable by tears,
Nor tenderest words with pity hears.
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All these, when centuries ten times told
The wheel of destiny have rolled.
The voice divine from far and wide
Calls up to Lethe's river-side.
That earthward they may pass once more
Remembering not the things before.
And with a blind propension yearn
To fleshly bodies to return.
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Thus, thus, it is joy to pass to the world below.
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O you who have borne even heavier things, God will grant an end to these too.
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They stood begging to be the first to make the voyage over and they reached out their hands in longing for the further shore.
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They reach the realms of tranquil bliss.
Green spaces folded in with trees,
A paradise of pleasances.
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Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
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The partial crowd their hopes and fears divide,
And aid, with eager shouts, the favored side.
Cries, murmurs, clamors, with a mixing sound,
From woods to woods, from hills to hills rebound.
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At which my memory with grief recoils.
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Is it then so very wretched a thing to die?
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My chief, let Fate cry on or back,
'Tis ours to follow, nothing slack:
Whatever betide, he only cures
The stroke of Fortune who endures.
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High praises, endless honors, you have won,
And mighty trophies, with your worthy son!
Two gods a silly woman have undone!
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Why thus, unforced, should we so tamely yield,
And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field?
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This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.
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The fields of Neptune take a purple dye.
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If Jove and heaven my just desires deny,
Hell shall the pow'r of heaven and Jove supply.
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So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state.
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I make no distinction between Trojan and Tyrian.
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You, Roman, make your task to rule nations by your government (these shall be your skills), to impose ordered ways upon a state of peace, to spare those who have submitted and to subdue the arrogant.
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Alas, pitiable boy—if only you might break your cruel fate!—you are to be Marcellus. [People,] give me lilies in armfuls.
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Virgil
Born:
October 13, 70 BC
Died:
September 19, 19 BC
(aged 51)
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