He ended: but Evander's look this long while overran His face, his speaking eyes, and all his body fair to see; Then in few words he answered thus: "How sweet to welcome thee, Best heart of Troy! and how I mind the words, and seem to hear Anchises' voice, and see the face that mighty man did bear: For I remember Priam erst, child of Laomedon, Came to Hesione's abode, to Salamis passed on, And thence would wend his ways to seek Arcadia's chilly place. The blossom of the spring of life then bloomed upon my face, 160 When on the Teucrian lords I looked with joy and wonderment; On Priam, too: but loftier there than any other went Anchises; and his sight in me struck youthful love awake. I yearned to speak unto the man, and hand in hand to take: So fain I met him, led him in to Phineus' wallèd place; And he, departing, gave to me a noble arrow-case And Lycian shafts; a cloak thereto, all shot across with gold, And golden bridles twain, that now Pallas, my son, doth hold. Lo, then, the right hand that ye sought is joined in troth to thine; And when tomorrow's light once more upon the world shall shine, 170 Glad, holpen, shall I send you forth and stay you with my store. Meanwhile, since here ye come our friends, with us the Gods adore At this our hallowed yearly feast, which ill it were to stay: Be kind, and with your fellows' boards make friends without delay."