He twice assay’d to cast his son in gold Had not the father’s grief restrain’d his art. That Theseus conquer’d and the monster fell. Lent to the loving maid this last relief,Īnd all those erring paths describ’d so well Till the kind artist, mov’d with pious grief, Not to be found, but by the faithful clew Here dwells the monster, hid from human view, Not far from thence he grav’d the wondrous maze,Ī thousand doors, a thousand winding ways: Then how she cheats her bellowing lover’s eye There too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mournful parents stand around in tears,Īnd rising Crete against their shore appears. In which the destin’d names by lots were cast: Sev’n youths from Athens yearly sent, to meetĪnd next to those the dreadful urn was plac’d, Then o’er the lofty gate his art emboss’dĪndrogeos’ death, and off’rings to his ghost The steerage of his wings, that cut the sky: Inscrib’d to Phœbus, here he hung on high (The first who sail’d in air,) ’t is sung by Fame,Īnd here alighting, built this costly frame. Thro’ Trivia’s grove they walk and now behold,Īnd enter now, the temple roof’d with gold.
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Thence full of fate returns, and of the god. Which hides from sight his venerable maid.
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Where Phœbus is ador’d and seeks the shade Thus, while their sev’ral charges they fulfil, Or trace thro’ valleys the discover’d floods. Or search for hollow trees, and fell the woods, Some gather sticks, the kindled flames to feed,
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Some strike from clashing flints their fiery seed They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land,Īnd greet with greedy joy th’ Italian strand. Their anchors dropp’d, his crew the vessels moor. The winds, and reach’d at length the Cumæan shore: H E said, and wept then spread his sails before She attends him to hell describing to him the various scenes of that place, and conducting him to his father Anchises, who instructs him in those sublime mysteries of the soul of the world, and the transmigration and shews him that glorious race of heroes which was to descend from him, and his posterity. T HE A RGUMENT.-The Sibyl foretells Æneas the adventures he should meet with in Italy. Verse > Harvard Classics > Vergil > Æneid