Unto the clouds that swim aloft the smiting of the sun: As when the whitening of the wind across the flood doth run, And step by step the sea gets up, and higher heaps the wave, Until heaven-high it sweeps at last up from its lowest cave. 530 And here, by dint of whistling shaft in forefront of the fight, A youth, e'en Tyrrheus' eldest son, by name of Almo hight, Was laid alow: there in his throat the reedy bane abode, And shut with blood the path of speech, the tender life-breath's road. And many a body fell around: there, thrusting through the press With peaceful word, Galæsus old died in his righteousness; Most just of men; most rich erewhile of all Ausonian land: Five flocks of bleaters once he had: five-fold came home to hand His herds of neat: an hundred ploughs turned up the earth for him. 539 But while they wrought these deeds of Mars mid doubtful fate and dim, The Goddess, strong in pledge fulfilled, since she the war had stained With very blood, and death of men in that first battle gained, Leaveth the Westland, and upborne along the hollow sky, To Juno such a word of pride sets forth victoriously: "Lo thou, the discord fashioned fair with misery of fight! Come let them join in friendship now, and troth together plight! But now, since I have sprinkled Troy with that Ausonian blood, I will do more, if thereunto thy will abideth good; For all the cities neighbouring to war my word shall bring, And in their souls the love of Mars and maddening fire shall fling 550 Till all strike in, and all the lea crops of my sowing bear."