9781787375642 by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

When rumour brought

Her name to Sextus, in the depth of night,

While Titan's chariot beneath our earth

Wheeled on his middle course, he took his way

Through fields deserted; while a faithful band,

His wonted ministers in deeds of guilt,

Seeking the hag 'mid broken sepulchres,

Beheld her seated on the crags afar

Where Haemus falls towards Pharsalia's plain.

There was she proving for her gods and priests

Words still unknown, and framing numbered chants

Of dire and novel purpose: for she feared

Lest Mars might stray into another world,

And spare Thessalian soil the blood ere long

To flow in torrents; and she thus forbade

Philippi's field, polluted with her song,

Thick with her poisonous distilments sown,

To let the war pass by. Such deaths, she hopes,

Soon shall be hers! the blood of all the world

Shed for her use! to her it shall be given

To sever from their trunks the heads of kings,

Plunder the ashes of the noble dead,

Italia's bravest, and in triumph add

The mightiest warriors to her host of shades.

And now what spoils from Magnus' tombless corse

Her hand may snatch, on which of Caesar's limbs

She soon may pounce, she makes her foul forecast

And eager gloats.

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