"Come now, and I of Dardan folk will tell the following fame, And what a folk from Italy the world may yet await, Most glorious souls, to bear our name adown the ways of fate. Yea, I will set it forth in words, and thou thy tale shalt hear: Lo ye, the youth that yonder leans upon the headless spear, 760 Fate gives him nighest place today; he first of all shall rise, Blent blood of Troy and Italy, unto the earthly skies: Silvius is he, an Alban name, thy son, thy latest born; He whom thy wife Lavinia now, when thin thy life is worn, Beareth in woods to be a king and get a kingly race, Whence comes the lordship of our folk within the Long White Place. And Procas standeth next to him, the Trojan people's fame; Then Capys, Numitor, and he who bringeth back thy name, Silvius Æneas, great in war, and great in godliness, If ever he in that White Stead may bear the kingdom's stress. 770 Lo ye, what youths! what glorious might unto thine eyes is shown! But they who shade their temples o'er with civic oaken crown, These build for thee Nomentum's walls, and Gabii, and the folk Fidenian, and the mountains load with fair Collatia's yoke: Pometii, Bola, Cora, there shall rise beneath their hands, And Inuus' camp: great names shall spring amid the nameless lands. "Then Mavors' child shall come on earth, his grandsire following, When Ilia's womb, Assaracus' own blood, to birth shall bring That Romulus:--lo, see ye not the twin crests on his head, And how the Father hallows him for day with his own dread 780 E'en now? Lo, son! those signs of his; lo, that renownèd Rome! Whose lordship filleth all the earth, whose heart Olympus' home, And with begirdling of her wall girds seven great burgs to her, Rejoicing in her man-born babes: e'en as the Earth-Mother Amidst the Phrygian cities goes with car and towered crown, Glad in the Gods, whom hundred-fold she kisseth for her own. All heaven-abiders, all as kings within the house of air. Ah, turn thine eyeballs hitherward, look on this people here, Thy Roman folk! Lo Cæsar now! Lo all Iulus' race, Who 'neath the mighty vault of heaven shall dwell in coming days. 790 And this is he, this is the man thou oft hast heard foretold, Augustus Cæsar, sprung from God to bring the age of gold Aback unto the Latin fields, where Saturn once was king. Yea, and the Garamantian folk and Indians shall he bring Beneath his sway: beyond the stars, beyond the course of years, Beyond the Sun-path lies the land, where Atlas heaven upbears, And on his shoulders turns the pole with burning stars bestrown. Yea, and e'en now the Caspian realms quake at his coming, shown By oracles of God; and quakes the far Mæotic mere, 799 And sevenfold Nile through all his mouths quakes in bewildered fear.