Part 14 (1/2)

Vergil follows coical The introduction rele of the Trojan exiles is not confined to earth, but has its counterpart in heaven, where Juno cherishes ainst the Trojans, while Venus chanition of this divine ele of the story, for it is through the agency of these rival Goddesses that ht out

The first view of our Trojan band shows the storm, wave-tossed and all but wrecked, they know not where

Through the uproar of the ele cry of stout-hearted aeneas hiain, Who died at Troy like valiant men, E'en in their parents' view!

O Diomed, first of Greeks in fray, Why pressed I not the plain that day, Yielding ian sky, Fierce Hector, tall Sarpedon lie: Where Simos tumbles 'neath his wave shi+elds, helton

But even as he speaks, the mountain waves break and drive his frail shi+ps upon the quicksands near so contrast to this wild scene is the caluided by the kindly divinities of the sea The description of this spot, and the rest and refresh bits of realism in the poem

After the necessary refreshment of food and sleep, aeneas, with his faithful Achates as sole coion upon the shores of which they have been cast As they wander through a deep forest they uise of a huntress, and from her they inquire the name of this land

aeneas now learns that he has been wrecked upon the coast of Africa, not far fro He learns her tragic story: how her brother had killed her husband Sychaeus out of greed for gain, and how she had fled, in consequence, with a band of Tyrian followers The Goddess points out the way to this new city, bids theht, revealing her true nature to her son as she departs

They soon reach a height which overlooks the new city of Carthage, and find themselves before a temple of Juno, upon whose architrave are sculptured scenes fro, and the city is all a-buzz with toil of its inhabitants who urge on thebaffled in his search for his own pro as he looks upon this scene:

Yea, all, like busy bees throughout the flowery er toil O blessed toil!

O happy ye, whose walls already rise! But I,-- When shall I see my city and my city's walls?

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[F] These quotations are edy_, by permission of Silver, Burdett & Co

Soon they discover the pictures on the architrave, and are much moved as well as comforted to know that here, so far froles are known and appreciated And now the strains ofis heard, and, themselves unseen, aeneas and Achates behold the beautiful and stately queen Dido entering the temple with her train of maidens and courtiers The queen takes her seat and proceeds to hold an i tasks to her lieutenants

Again the approach of ais heard, and into the stately tenizes to be a part of his own band who had been cast up upon another part of the shore They are followed by a inians Old Ilioneus, one of the Trojans, pleads their cause before the queen in a speech of led supplication and reproach, while at the same time he bewails the loss of his beloved prince aeneas

The queen receives the wanderers with open-handed generosity, disclaims all intentional harshness, bids the Trojans freely share her city and her real hilad words to aeneas and his companions They at once stand forth before the eyes of the astonished throng, joyfully greet their corateful and courtly speech:

Lo, him you ask for! I am he, aeneas, saved frons to mourn For Ilium's cruel care!

That bids e'en us, poor relics, torn From Danaan fury, all outworn By earth and ocean, all forlorn, Its home, it's city share!

We cannot thank you; no, nor they, Our brethren of the Dardan race, Who, driven frohout the orld stray

May heaven, if virtue claiht, Heaven, and the sense of conscious right, With worthier ave you birth?

What glorious sires begat such worth?

While rivers run into the deep, While shadows o'er the hillside sweep, While stars in heaven's fair pasture graze, Shall live your honor, naton