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 FIRST AND FOURTH BOOKS 
 
 ^NEID OF YIEGIL: 
 
 wrebb:n am otoli>e» 
 
 THK TRAVBL9 OF JSKBA8, THK ORIGIN OP THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE 8TBATAGEMH 
 
 KMPLOYKD BY THE GODDESS JUNO (HAPPILY WITHOUT SUCCESS) TO NIP 
 
 THAT IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE IN THE BUD, THE COUNTERPLOTS 
 
 OF THE GODDESS VENUS AND HER MISCHIEVOUS LITTLE 
 
 SON CUPID, AND THE FURIOUS LOVE AND 
 
 ROMANTIC DEATH OF QUEEN DIDO. 
 
 IN HEXAMETER AND PENTAMETER. 
 
 WITH IJ-I-U^TRATION? BY THOMA^ WORTH. 
 
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 P H E F A C E , 
 
 The present work had its inception in a vehement de&ire to lebcue the Bard ol'Man- 
 rua Irom the oblivion to which this degenerate age seems bent upon consigning him ; 
 to restore him to that pre-eminence, and to challenge for him that homage, which 
 from the time ol imperial Augustus down to about the year of grace eighteen hundred 
 and thirty were unreservedly accorded him throughout the realm of letters, and the 
 witholding of which is one of the most alarming symptoms of the decadence of class- 
 ical learning in our times. The poet-laureate of Csesar, as it were (or, possibly, as it 
 Avas) — the chiefest ornament of the Golden Age — the indispensable companion of 
 medieval students — the star actor of the Divina Commcdia — the thesaurus of all 
 authors before the epoch of Tuppcr — the vade 7nea>m of all who ever pretended to 
 any sort of scholarship down to a generation ago,— has been sapplanted in our 
 .schools by such sylhibub trash as Parle- vous and Book Keeping ; has been'kickcd out 
 ro make room for Brewer'' s Familiar Science and a whole brood of contemptible 
 Ologies, that are no more a substitute for Virgil than burnt beans are for old Java. 
 And even those who do set out to become acquainted with the bard are so infected 
 with the general disposition to slight him that yon shall find their Virgil thumbed 
 and soiled for the first eighty lines of the urEneid, while the remainder of the volume 
 is as new, and forever remains as new, as when it left the bookbinder's hands. 
 
 Below will be fonnd a few of the opening lines of the iEncid, in juxtaposition 
 M ith what was intended as a literal translation ot the text and a close imitation of the 
 verse. An experiment extending through the first seven lines was suflicient to induce 
 The translator to concur in the opinion of the best critics, that the English language 
 is ill adapted to the uses of hexameter blank verse : 
 
 Anna vi- 
 A VU18 and the 
 
 Itali- 
 Oriven hy 
 
 Littora 
 Much wae hr 
 
 Vi Supe- I 
 flu ac- ! 
 
 M ulta quo 
 Much 
 
 Infer- 
 Aud 
 
 Alha- 
 The 
 
 rum que ea- 
 rn an I 
 
 am fa- 
 Fate came to 
 
 mult(um) il- 
 tosbcil over 
 
 rum frse- 
 count of the 
 
 qu(e) et l>el- 
 also he 
 
 ret que De- 
 brought into 
 
 nique pa- 
 famed Allian- 
 
 no Tro 
 sing who 
 
 10 profu- 
 Italy 
 
 1(c) et tpr- 
 Uind and 
 
 vse memo- 
 mem'rable 
 
 lo pas- 
 biiffered in 
 
 iih Lati- 
 Latium his 
 
 trcs at- 
 fatberri and 
 
 ja; qui j primus ab 
 first from the 1 shores of Troy 
 
 gus La- 
 and the La- 
 
 ris jac- 
 sea by the 
 
 rem ju- j 
 anger of | 
 
 sus dum I 
 war while he | 
 
 o cenus 
 
 snds : vlitncc the 
 
 qu(e) altae 
 Home the 
 
 vinaque 
 vinian 
 
 tatus et 
 I'owcrs su- 
 
 noniB ob 
 onielsome 
 
 condcrct 
 builded his 
 
 unde La- 
 race of 
 
 mneuia 
 city c- 
 
 oris 
 sailing 
 
 venit 
 country 
 
 alto 
 pernal 
 
 iram 
 Juuo 
 
 urbem 
 city 
 
 tinum 
 Latins 
 
 Romie 
 
 ternal 
 
 li is greatly hoped thatallwho deplore the neglect witli Mhich the solid old 
 Ruuian classics are now-a-days treated, will look with favor upon this earnest attempt 
 '<> give our grand old I'oct a lift. And may the perusal of tliesc pages incite in many 
 souls Budi a desire to renew and extensively cultivate his charming acquaintance, that 
 they shall not be satisfied until Ihcy can adopt for thcmsolvos the salutation with 
 >Oii'-ti Dante addressed the same old Mantuan Bard: 
 
 iJlory and light of all the tuneful train : 
 
 May it avail me, that I long with zeal 
 
 Have Kought thy volume, and with love imruelisc 
 
 Have conned it o'er.
 
 
 THE ^EN^IllID. 
 
 LIBER PRIMUS. 
 
 Arms and the Man I sing, who, first from tlic shores of Troy 
 
 sailing, 
 Driven by Fate, came to Italy, and the Lavinian country ; 
 Mneh Avas he tossed over land and sea, by the Powers Supernal. 
 Because of tlie mcm'rable anger of cruelsomc Juno. 
 Much also he suffered in war, while he buildcd his city. 
 And brought intoLatium his gods: whence the race of theLatijis, 
 The famed Alban fatlicrs, and Rome, tlu' City Eternal. 
 
 Muse ! relate me the facts, if you happen to know \'ui. 
 
 Concerning the hero of this astonishing j>oeni ; 
 
 Explain why the queen of the gods was so terribly eager 
 
 So clever and pious a man at each step to beleaguer ; — 
 
 "Why with wrath she pursued him, — with sliipwreck and icmpest 
 
 and thunder : 
 Do they cultivate such reprehensible morals up yonder ? 
 
 Far away over the ocean, on Africa's north edge. 
 
 Opposite Italy, stood the fair city of Carthage ; 
 
 A Tyrian city it was, of renown such as few kno\\ , 
 
 Wealthy and warlike, and loved before all lands b}- Juno. 
 
 Here were her coach : here the world's imperial Capital 
 
 She liopcd and intended to fix, if the Fates didn't stop it all : — 
 
 Yet long had she heard of a race, of Trojan persuasion, 
 
 That one day should give her pet ])roject a thorough abrasion. 
 
 This fearing, and cherishing numerous other old dudgeons, 
 
 She drove far from Latium and spitefully treated ih<^ Trojnns-— '
 
 4 
 
 The low Trojans left by the Greeks and cruel Acliilles. 
 TJncertain tliey wandered, from Joppa lialf way to Antilles, 
 Through long years repeating their devious peregrinations : 
 Such a vast work it was to establish the Roman foundations. 
 
 Now scarce from Trinacrian sliorcs were the Trojans departed, 
 Upheaving the brine witli their prows, and jolly light-hearted, 
 When Juno soliloquised : " Must I my purpose relinquish, 
 Unable these villains to check, and their scheme to extinguish ? 
 ( Jould Minerva sling Jupiter's lightning, and breed such a rumpus, 
 While I, his sister and consort, the boss of Olympus, 
 Must be outmaneuvered and whipped ? If my purpose now falters, 
 Who henceforth will supplicate Juno, or bow at her altars ?" 
 
 Tlicse wicked sentiments in her inflamed bosom nursing, 
 
 To ^Eolia, birth-place of storms, the goddess goes cursing. 
 
 Here, in a vast cavern, under the mountains, -t^^]olus, 
 
 God of tile Winds, on a lofty throne reigns, grim and solus. 
 
 The Ijlustering tempests he curbs, and in straight-jackets buckles. 
 
 And, Avhen obstreperous, raps them over the knuckles. 
 
 Him thus she invokes : '• King of the terrible Snorters ! 
 
 A race by me hated are sailing the smooth Tuscan waters. 
 
 Bearing Troy into Italy, 'long with their vanquished Penates : 
 
 Unkennel thy subjects and blow tlie rapscallions to Hades ! 
 
 Drive their old tubs on the rocks, and there let tliem stick fast, 
 
 And give the poor sufifcring sharks a square Trojan breakfast ! 
 
 I will reward you with my fairest nymph, Deiopca ; 
 
 You shall have her at once, without waiting like Jacob for Leah." 
 
 " With pleasure," JEolus replied : " 'tis yours to propose things. 
 And mine to i>erform ; for you gave me my scepter and those 
 
 things." 
 Ho saying, lie liinl<Ml liis spear 'gainst the mountainous surface.
 
 Q^ 
 
 (J.-iMim roi)Vcr.-A cuspitlc iiioiiicni 
 linpiilit in liUU8; no. V'onli, vc.liil iij^minc Ihcto, 
 ciun data porta, rmmi. ot i.>iTn« (nrbiijo poi-llanl. 
 
 -En. I.. SI.
 
 And the wildt liowling Winds rnsli forth i>cll inell, at the or'fiee, — 
 The East Wind, the North Wind, and stormy Sow-Wester, t(v 
 
 getlier 
 Scour over the cartli, and inaugurate drctful bad weather. 
 They dance on tlie deep, and plough up the ) trine with their 
 
 bellows. 
 Black barl)arous night hangs low on the Ijoisterous billows, 
 Thick lightnings go zigzag all over, witli loud thunders booming. 
 And everything looks as though death was immejitly coming. 
 Forthwith Father yEneas, striking a tragical attitude, 
 Cries : '• Thrice and four times better off, in point of beatitude, 
 They who in the sight of tlieir fathei's, the Trojan walls under, 
 Were torn by Greek fire and 20-lb. Parrots asunder ! 
 Why could I not have fallen b}' th right hand, son of Tedious \ 
 Why didn't they kill the last man of lis, jest to obleege us ? 
 To have died with Sarpedon and Hector were grand and poetic ; — 
 But this sort of thing smacks a trifle too much of emetic !" 
 
 While he spouts on the deck, a wicrlent blast from the jiorrard 
 Strikes tlic ship on her side, and the eloquent man in the forrard. 
 Snap go the slirouds, like the strings of an ovcrtuned fiddle, 
 And the speech and the jib-boom are broken short off in the 
 
 middle. 
 Now on the crest and now in the trough the fleet pitch and stagger, 
 Like kites without tails, or Dutchmen o'erloaded with lager • 
 Tliese the East Wind in terraqueous mud firmly wedges ; 
 Those are urged u}>on ledges that merge at the edge their huge 
 
 ridges. 
 Meanwhile old N»-])tinie jicrceives a deuce of a clatter, 
 And puts up his classical nob to see what is the mattxjr. 
 He summons the blustering Africus, Boreas, Eurus, 
 And thus opens on 'em: *' You in)pudent Wind Bags! it'scurus
 
 6 
 
 Wliere you came hy the requisite cheek to attempt tl^.s invasion! 
 Scratch gravel for home! Shoukl yon make such another occasion 
 You -won't get oft' so. ^ly legurds to ^Eolus, your nuister, 
 And say he must keep his Avild critiurs in pound or in jjasture. 
 Let him govern his own windy reahn, and his lotty airs take on : 
 This watery machine I can run without his help, I reckon !" 
 At once the rough waters grow smooth, — tiie skies 'gin to brighten. 
 And day is restored. At the same time Cimothoc and Triton 
 Shove the craft off the rocks, while Nep also boosts with his trident, 
 Then mounting his tortorshell coach, takes a dignified ride in't. 
 The storm-pummeled voyagers make for the neighboring highland, 
 And goiii^ ashore, warmly welcome the long-wished-for dry land. 
 'I'hcn ^neas and faithful Achates are moved with a notion 
 To climb a small mountain and scan the expanse of the ocean, — 
 (Far easier than scanning this verse, as ap[x?aranccs strike us,) 
 If haply their eyes may behold their lost comrades — Caicus, 
 Or Lycus, or some other cuss, or tlie Phrygian galleys : 
 No galleys they see, but a herd of deer browsing tlic valleys. 
 Seven tall ones they chase, and soon having fatally hurt 'em, 
 They bear to their comrades, who institute straiglit a ]X)st mortem. 
 .Some rip off the hides and dissect, some gather dry fuel, 
 Soiue ])lace brazen caldrons on shore, and mix in the gruel, 
 And soon with fat venison, and Sicily wine, they grow stronger ; 
 Hojx; and courage return, and they vote to survive aAvhile longer. 
 
 Done at length was the feast and the day. On Olyrapus''cs battle- 
 ments 
 
 Urcat Jove stood beholding the earth, witli her kingdoms and 
 settlements, 
 
 All lying in sluml)er, so still that a pin you might hear drop. 
 
 To whom repaired Venus, each eye neatly fringed with a tear-drop, 
 '^I'lni-' siiiiiii-: "O thon who witli sway utiivcrsal do^t liandle us,
 
 rimorlioc -innil, >\ I liloii aduixus, a* iif.u 
 Dotrudnut iiavo^ soopr.lo. Levat Ip.^c tridcnii, 
 AlqiH' rotis 5unima> Icvibn-* porjabiiiir luidan. 
 
 A:^. I.. 144.
 
 The way that thy wife treats the Trojans is }»uth<;kly .sciiiiil.-ilnus '. 
 Thou didst promise them Italy ! there they should liiid o('cu|)atiuu. 
 And there should they found the all-governing* Roman j)lantati(tii. 
 What counsel induces thee now to go back on thy ])romise '( 
 To blast us with shipwreck, and shut all fxploicd regions IVoju ns"r 
 
 First hcli)ing himself to a choice lot of oscular })lundei', 
 xVnd smacking his lips till the clouds palpitated like thunder. 
 Thus Jupiter answered : " Pray don't get your back up, my darling. 
 I'm sorry that you and my wife must forever Ijc quar'ling. 
 Your yEneas that long promised country shall finally enter : 
 There shall he clean out the natives, and be the Head Ccnifc: 
 There, through Ascanius his son, (Avhom I now name lulus, i 
 Sh?,!! the scepter descend in a long line of Troy blooded rulei-s. 
 Till the wolf-suckled Romulus builds a smart town on the Tiltfi 
 Which bimeby so mighty shall grow that no tongue can describe her. 
 Then Cassar shall rise, and go bushwhacking hither and yonder. 
 The conqueror of Britain and Gaul, the ]ilanet's great wonder. 
 The pride of the Romans, who shall so with ])raise overfeed him 
 That old Doctor Brutus will have to be called in to Ideed him. 
 Then cometh Augustus, well soaped by poets coeval. 
 (The poets thereby clearly proving their heads to be level 
 On tactics which good Dr. Watts will consider no evil :) 
 Then the Age shall grow mild ; Faith and Virtue shall once again 
 
 look up, 
 And the temple of Mars shall suffer an absolute lock up." 
 
 At the first peep of dawn, father yEneas and faithful Achates 
 AVent forth to see what they could find, whether bears or polatifs. 
 When out of the wood into full view suddenly busted 
 His fair mother Venus, and here's how the twain she accosted : 
 " Ho, Gentles ! you haven't seen one of mv sisters nor nothing.
 
 Prt-rised som'at like me, — on her legs not a great deal of clothing, 
 
 Girt with a quiver, and bent on the ladylike pastime 
 
 Of chasing the boar •witli full cry, in exceedingly fast tune ?" 
 
 "■ Oh no ma'am, we have not enjoyed that extrornery pleasure ; 
 But what shall I call you ? Your beauty no language can measure ! 
 Here, shipwrecked strangers we wander, — oh lighten our labors! 
 And show us what coast wc^•e encoimtorod — what country, what 
 neighbors." 
 
 Then responded Venus: " On Lybian acres you stray now, 
 
 In the kingdom of Carthage, where lovely Queen Dido bears sway 
 
 now. 
 Lately from Tyre she migrated, fleeing Pygmalion, her brother, 
 Who for gold sent her husband, Sichaeus, from this world to tother. 
 Here a city she builds, and e'en now with ramparts encloses, 
 And Carthage you'll find, fair youths, if you follow your noses." 
 Then turning to leave them, her person exhaled a bright glory, 
 Whereupon ^Eneas pursued, bawling out : " The old story ! 
 Achates ! look after my carpet-bag, while I get at her ! 
 I know that ineffable being, and that's what's the matter ! 
 O cruel mater ! why still will ye play your son those tricks ? 
 Why must I forever be cheated with metamorphostics ?" 
 Thus having the vanishing figure sufficiently scolded, 
 He marvels along toward the town, in a fleecy cloud folded. 
 Now he enters the gates, and mingles unseen in the bustle ; 
 He admires the brisk traffic, the clatter-te-bang universal, 
 The turrets and domes, the bulwarks, the parapets full o' guards, 
 The pure country milk carts, the fashions, the boulevards, 
 The stately old heroes outwalking and airing their war-scars, 
 Tlie lively young people out riding in dog carts and horse cars. 
 In the midst of the town stood a grove, umbrageous and ample» 
 fn the midst of tlie grove stood the loffy Junonia)i temple.
 
 
 ^"^t 
 
 <- 
 
 Cui Mater inwUa fti/oo lulifc ubvia bvlva. 
 S'irjiinis os liabitnnniuc 2,'erciis. ci sircini.- mum:!. 
 S]^;irtaufe. 
 
 •'Hens," iniinil, '•Juvencri, luonsiraic incinntn 
 Viflisli.s fti quain liic eiTantem forte sororum, 
 J'.t «pnm'iiUU apri riir?iun clamnro prcmentern." 
 
 .■r.n. 1 . ImI.
 
 9 
 
 Oil pu^^iug the ]x)rtal and going a short distaiico furdi;!-, 
 
 Tlic battles of Troy lie beholds, all painted in order ! 
 
 In wonderful fresco, where Trojans and Greeks, in thick bunches 
 
 Are cutting and slashing, and giving each *>ther hot punclies. 
 
 Here he discerns the strong-minded l*entliesilea, 
 
 Who fights so ferocious that even stout veterans flue her ; 
 
 There, aged King Priam; there, his own cun>{)icn(>us llgurc ; 
 
 There, youthful Troilus, the rash prince who slujuld have l)cen 
 
 bigger 
 Ere measuring swords with Achilles, that barbarous Aictor 
 Who thrice round the walls drags the lifeless body of Hector. 
 While yEneas weeps o'er the scene, like a vinegar cruet. 
 While he holds a small personal wake over Ilium fuit, 
 Lo! Dido the Queen, with page, courtier, suitor, and satrap. 
 Surrounding and crowding like rats besieging a rat-trap, 
 Of Ijcauty so great that it makes all Ijcholdcrs to hanker, 
 Sails into the temple, and on a high throne comes to anchor. — 
 She passels out work, and administers law to her subjects, 
 And comes down handsome for various benevolent objects, 
 When anon the cloud-hidden hero is highly astounded 
 By the sudden arrival of those Avhom he thought, to be drownded ; 
 Whom he firmly L>elieved to be held in Plutonian durance, 
 And was cheerfully hoping to realize on their insurance. — 
 Cloanthus, Alethes, Caicus, and Gyas, and so forth ; 
 And thus does their spokesman, Iloneus, their business show forth : 
 "' gracious Que<'n ! we implore thy protection and ]iity ! 
 We come on no raid against this magnificent city ; 
 We are exiles from Troy, seeking homes in Ilesperia lyin' ; 
 Thither full gay we were sailing, when stormy Orion 
 Rose from the deep, and with fni ions tempests assailed us, 
 Shivering our timbers that suddent — we scarce knew what ailed us. 
 )r <^ar King and companions were done for hy asphyxiation.
 
 10 
 
 And we, the sad relics, o'crburdcned with woe and purgation, 
 Arc flun<r on your shores. Wliat ruffians inhabit this country. 
 That threaten Avith fire, and forbid us a custom-house entry ?" 
 Tlie Queen sweetly answered : " Banish your fears worthy Trojants, 
 Xor let this induce you to reckon my subjects as no gents. 
 The simple fact is, we're everywhere compassed by savages. 
 And have to keep pickets thrown out on account of tlieir ravages. 
 Who has not heard of illustrious Troy and her worthies ? 
 As fine a town (ere it went upward,) as any on earth is. 
 Welcome ! brave men ! your affairs shall be promptly adjusted ; 
 And would that yom* King by the same storm had hither been 
 
 tossted !'' 
 Just tlien the liero broke out of his cloudy environ. 
 Exclaiming : " Behold the identical chap you inquire on I 
 'Thcj tliought to present me a prey to the sliark and the lobster. 
 But I aint dead i/ct ! in the l)eautiful language of Webster. 
 tliou who alone of all potentates showest compassion 
 On us, the fag end of a once proud and prosperous nation. 
 If I were to stand here and blow until dinner-time, yet it woukl 
 Nfever begin to express our mifathomless gratitude I" 
 
 So startled was Dido by this unexpected transaction. 
 Her buttons, like l*egotty's, flew in every direction ; 
 But quickly regaining her somewlisit disturbed equilibrium. 
 She toucliingly said : " I shouldn't of known you from Abraliam." 
 Are you tliat yEneas, renowned for virtue and ])rowess. 
 Whom fair A'cniis ))ore to Anchises, by rippling Simois Y 
 The hero wlio vjiliantly cudgeled his (rruel Greek foes back, 
 While safely he Ijrought otriiis aged old ancestor pooscback '(, 
 Come, enter by doors, royal wanderer! Come, worthy Trojans I 
 r*\\ill <_nvf' me great pleasure to furnish you supper and lodgins." 
 'I'ti'ii itiio till- roy:il slielmni:', with many nmenities. j^
 
 11 
 
 She leads her guests, aiui invcjkcs (he l*iini<; diviniiitj.s. 
 Moreover, an elegant baiKpiet she spreads in thr piilaee, 
 And a slew of good cheer despatches at (»ut'e to the galleys. 
 Achates goes also, to sec that all's right, iiiid uo scj-ew loose, 
 With orders to bring to the court that august hriit, lulus. 
 
 But Venus concludes to mix in at ihis critical crisis, 
 And thus to that naughty god Cupid unfolds her devices, 
 Imploring his help : " My son, my mighty S(iuintessenco, 
 Who makest all mortals to feel thy pestiferous puissance, — 
 Thou knowest how old Mrs. Jupiter, (jealous old tern\agant,) 
 Don't mean to let anything happen without putting her nuig in't : 
 A.nd how she is all the while trying a hohbery to kick up, 
 To tangle the Trojans in harm, and their projects to break up. 
 Just now royal Dido is welcoming ^Eneas, thy brother, 
 And all seems serene ; but I fear lest thro' some trick or other 
 Her kindness may change. AVhilc to-night a grniu! 1)!infpiot 
 
 makes ready, 
 lulus to Carthage prepares to follow his daddy : 
 Do thou be his substitute ; go in his stead to the banquet ; 
 (The boy in the meantime I'll hide fast asleep in a blanket :) 
 Seek thou Dido's lap, and at that particular juncture 
 When she looks on her guest, (the gemman from Troy,) why 
 
 jest puncture 
 Her bosom, and into her pour your invisible pizon. 
 That she shall be crazy to fa^en her fortunes to his'n." 
 Like a good little deity, Cupid obeys what she teaches, — 
 Doffs his wings, and puts on lulus'es body and l)reeclies. 
 Xow led by Achates, to Carthage he gaily advances, 
 xVnd on his arrival the sumptuous banquet commences. 
 On a golden couch, underneath a rich canopy, Dido 
 Assums lier iposish. On the right of the beautiful widow
 
 Tiir ;.,^odvlc',vs-buin ^i^iicas appears, ■with imposing white kids on, 
 For aii}'^ emergency ready, like Oliver Ditso)i. 
 Tlieu Trojnns and 'rVrian;^, in chokers and swallow-tails dainty, 
 "Rceiimb on the daiuask and rep. Two Imndred and twenty 
 Meji scrvaiits and inaid servants, qualified up to the handle, 
 Break china, spill ootTee, and serve up honed turkey and scandal. 
 Tlie counterfeit sou greets liis sire with affectionate seeming, 
 TJien goes for the Queen, who, of danger and trouble not dreaming, 
 'ihv^!^ the sweet boy to her bosom. In marvelous quick time 
 Ho lodges his fire in her veins, and brings down his victim. 
 The exquisite venom thiough all her anatomy mingles, 
 And every red drop of her blood like a dinner-gong jingles. 
 
 With talk the Queen spun out the night, quaffing deep of the nectar 
 Of love — asking much about Priam and much about Hector, 
 Ulysses, the li^astern Zouaves, the Tliessalian forces, 
 The arms of swart Memnon, the color of Diomed's horses, 
 How Achilies'es j>lume looked, and how Helen's runaway suit set — 
 - Nny, come ! noble guest," says she, " rehearse from the outset 
 TJie story of Troy, including the uttermost details ; 
 And let tbe assembly give heed to our guest, while he retails 
 The tlirilliiig adventures, and perils, and sore persecutions 
 Tliat during i^Q.Ycn yenrs have pursued liim thro* all lands and 
 «>ceans.*' 
 
 At onrr all v,vre silent, and fustenecf their eyes on the Leader, 
 While be sjnui the preposterous yarn which, long suffering reader. 
 You'll find in the yEneid, Libri Secundus and Tertius, — 
 And now we must «'losc with a rliyme that is truly atrocious.
 
 THE ^I^JSTEID. 
 
 LIBEIi QUARTUS 
 
 But the poor Queen, with raging love oppressed, 
 
 Xursed the fierce lire, and said she could not rest; 
 
 She kept a thinking what a star was he, 
 
 And how to heaven he traced his pedigree : 
 
 His reputation as a warryour, 
 
 The conversation which he talked to her. 
 
 His clothes so gorgeous, and his style so steep, 
 
 Denied the Queen inwigorating sleep. 
 
 Xext day the sun rose at the proper time, — 
 
 And much improved the Carthaginian clime, 
 
 "When thus her sister Anna she addressed : 
 
 '' Sister, my nights are full of M'ild unrest : 
 
 This nice young man that's now a stopping here 
 
 To my affections is a growing dear ; 
 
 delestial is his origin, I know, — 
 
 Such fearless souls don't emanate below. 
 
 My grief I what savage fights that man has fit. 
 
 And how genteel he can get up and git. 
 
 'Fi hadn't vowed not to unite again 
 
 I'm not quite certain but I should cave in. 
 
 Since poor dear Sic was slew by brother Pyg 
 
 For no live man I've ever oared a fig, 
 
 Till unto Carthage this brave hero came — 
 
 But now I — swan — I feel the ancient flame ; 
 
 But with my parent dust I would be mixed, 
 
 Or witli the tlnmderbolts of Jove transfixed.
 
 14 
 
 jjelbrc I'd break the laws of luodusly, 
 
 Or scandalize our best society ; 
 
 While }X)or Sichaeus keeps his coflincd state 
 
 My heart lies witli liis ashes — tliat's my gait." 
 
 Thus Dido speaks, — her swally choked with tears,- 
 
 Whom thus the sympathizing Anna cheers : 
 
 " sister, dearer than the light of day, 
 
 Why will you weep your ])recious eyes away V 
 
 Do you supf^osc your husl^and's bone-dust cares 
 
 A Bungtown copper who his trowsers wears ? 
 
 'Twas well enough to scorn the Lybian peers, 
 
 And put a flea in swart larbas' ears, 
 
 But if you've taken such a mighty shine 
 
 To this adventurous Trojan, why, go in. 
 
 Have you forgot our fierce Numidian foes? 
 
 Dotli not Gaetulia rob us of repose ? 
 
 Is not Tyre with lis for a scrimmage booked ? 
 
 Will not Pygmalion scelv his greenbacks liooked ? 
 
 It's my opinion Juno manned the oars 
 
 Tliat pulled these Trojan fellers to our shores, 
 
 And if we can but make tliis matcli ignite 
 
 Our city'll flourish higher nor a kite I 
 
 If Troy and Carthage can tlieir horses hitch 
 
 'Twill raise our glory to the highest pitch. 
 
 Vow, darling Dido, do take my advice, 
 
 Go and prepare the gods a sacrifice : 
 
 Less have a party, and a high old time, 
 
 And play your best card for detaining him, — 
 
 Make him repeat the story of his deeds,— 
 
 Beguile him with conundrums and charades — 
 
 Wl)ih; stormy winter rules botli sea and sky. 
 
 And his worn ships are laid up high ;ind dry."
 
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 Tlicse arguments the Queen of scruples reft, 
 And no discretion in her mind was left. 
 So to the mcetinus a call they paid, 
 And on the altar slaughtered several head 
 Of likely steers, to see if they could please 
 Ceres, and sundry other deities : 
 But first of all they seek the aid of Juno, 
 Who has a hand in every wedding, you know. 
 Dido herself stood o'er tlic l»roiling kine, 
 >Vnd poured upon their mugs a mug of wine, 
 ()r 'mong the loaded altars wandered round, 
 To see what happy omens could be found. 
 Oh ignorant diviners I what's the use 
 Of prying into Fate's dread secrets thus? 
 While through her marrow the fierce fluid runs, 
 And hot combustion eats her very bones. 
 Through the wide city's avenues and gates. 
 Her restless majesty perambulates, 
 As in the forest, the unwary stag — 
 On whom some sportsman, seeking game to bag. 
 Hath drawn a bead with weapon pitiless, — 
 Flies leaping through the Cretan Avilderness, 
 The deadly arrow sticking in his feelings. 
 Unconscious what it is provokes his squealings. 
 Now she escorts him through the busy town, 
 And promenades the sidewalks up and down. 
 Points out her palaces, and brown stone fronts. 
 And gently hints they are To Let at once, — 
 Drinks in his words with ever growing greed 
 And wants to hear more of the wooden steed. 
 When all the guests have left and gone to bed, 
 And tlie pale moon is rolling overhead.
 
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 Meandering through tlic lonoly hiin.j!!' t hall. 
 She tries liis voice and features to recall, 
 Then seeks the child Ascanius in his couch, 
 'Cause he looks like his govei-nor so mucli. 
 
 The half-built City Hall all work is stopixid on, 
 The soldier boys don't drill nor study Upton, 
 The ramparts and intrenchments are neglected, 
 And mighty little progress is effected. 
 
 Juno, meanwhile, perceiving hovr she acted, 
 
 With Cupid's poison ravinandistractcd, 
 
 Her sense of all propriety so dead 
 
 She didn't care a continental red — 
 
 She, (Juno,) went to Venus, and says she, 
 
 " What a condemn smart pair of gods you be ! 
 
 You and your boy may deem it a big thing 
 
 To get this feeble woman on a string, 
 
 But I don't see it ! though I do see this, — 
 
 Vou're down on m}' new built metropolis! 
 
 Now whither do your macliinations tend. 
 
 Or when will these deplored contentions end ? 
 
 You have accomplislied all your heart's desire, — 
 
 Poor Dido loves him like a house afire ; 
 
 Wliy not unite tlicm in the bands of Hymen 
 
 So me and you can live two loving women ? 
 
 Let's put the royal ro])es on I'oth their backs. 
 
 And me and you go tutelary snacks." 
 
 Venus jKjrceived that she was playing possum. 
 
 And with deceitful purpos*!, nnsw.'red, " Yes'm. 
 
 Si]ice you're disposed lhf> hundsonie thing to do 
 
 I must not 1)'^ :it l<>g'r*"*rheads witl\ you.—
 
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 I'Mlihiis a.L;.<;re(litiii- \''jiicroiii ::':iainiiii clictis : 
 
 "Tiiquo pi!cr(\;ic Ums, ra;t'j;num ct mcmoiabile nina<i', 
 
 I'll; (Ir-il..-) Divmii ^i rcrmiiin \'uh\ iliionim est!''
 
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 But Jupiter, ycr know, must have his say. 
 
 Or else there'll be the very juice to pay ; 
 
 You are his wife^ — ^you pump him, — I've no doubt 
 
 Flo'll be all right : you lead,— I'll follow suit.'* 
 
 " This little chore I'll undertake, my dear," 
 Said royal Juno, '' now jest look a hero : 
 The Trojan prince and Dido ride awti y 
 To go a hunting, at the break of day. 
 To-morrow. While the hunters spread their toils, 
 ['11 fdl the sky with thunders and turmoils, 
 Scatter their retinue with liail and rain. 
 And into the sanie ca\ern lead the twain : 
 I'll be on hand, and if you don't Ijack down, 
 I'll join 'em fast, and do the job up brown." 
 *' Nuif ccd," replied the diplomatic Yeims ; 
 "This trick shall be inwiolate between us." 
 
 And now tlie nioiuing sun ascends tiie sky ; 
 
 The arm-ed hunters to the forests iiie, 
 
 With nets, and toils, and such like preparation, 
 
 And packs of purps that bark witliout ceascation. 
 
 The Carthaginian peers expectant wait 
 
 For Dido's coming, at her door yard gate, 
 
 While she, arisen from un<juiel. slumber, 
 
 Is putting on her gipsy suit wp chomliev, 
 
 Her prancing steed, his foaming bit a chawing, 
 
 Impatient stands, with pride the fresh turf pawing. 
 
 At length she issues from her domicil. 
 
 With hoops, and fringe, and point lace dressed " tu kill." 
 
 Her goold watch stickin in her lovely waist, 
 
 Hor waterfiill got up in style and taste,
 
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 Her fragile corpus in a French mantiller, 
 Her handkerchief perfumeried with vaniller : 
 .Eneas attends her, scrumptious as ApoUer, 
 The Phrygian youths and sweet Ascanius foUer. 
 And now the party seek the wooded hills, 
 And straightway dislocate the anamiles. 
 Giraffes and chipmunks, from the mountain peak. 
 Gallop and tumble like 1000 of hrick, — 
 Lions and woodchucks clatter down the vales 
 With snorting snouts erect, and likewise tails : 
 Ascanius bravely guides his steed imperious, 
 And wishes he could "bag a rhinocerious." 
 
 But rumbling sounds a coming tempest told. 
 
 And quick, from cloud and crag, a deluge rolled. 
 
 Fire fought with darkness in the crackling sky, 
 
 Where Chaos hung his hellish tapestry, 
 
 While beasts and men dispersed in dire alarm, 
 
 And sought to hide them from the wrathful storm. 
 
 The Trojan leader and the Tyrian queen 
 
 In the predestinated cave convene : 
 
 Then Earth the signal gives, with laboring cries, — 
 
 Great Juno speeds the nuptial mysteries. 
 
 The blushing lightnings tell the conscious sky, 
 
 And wood nymphs shriek from craggy summits high. 
 
 Oh, sad birth-day of unavailing woe ! 
 
 ()li, cave ! thou dark aljode of mischief, oh ! 
 
 Dido no longer acts clandescently, 
 
 But openly, and quite indecently, 
 
 Calls him her liusband, and in this way tries 
 
 To pull the wool o'er circumspectious eyes. 
 
 Hut Jupiter, tlie great, grand, liigh old Turk, 
 
 Woke up, and gaped, and looked, and said, "What work!
 
 
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 Mercury, my son, put on your shappo, quick, 
 And drap on Carthage city, like a streak : 
 /Eneas is there, a hangin around Dido ; 
 I want to know what lie means by it, I do ! 
 Tell him to pack up and be off for Italy, 
 Or if he don't, I'll larrup him most mightily." 
 So Hermes put his wing-cd india-rubbers on, 
 And ere you could articulate Jack Robbison, 
 He faced the Trojan, busy as a bee, 
 Repairing Dido's wash-tub — and says lie, 
 " Now drop that hammer like a hot potatcr. 
 And put your fleet to sea, — that's what's the matter ! 
 The Fates ordain that you get up a nation 
 Whose fame and power shall ring through all creation ; 
 And Jove says if you don't obey this message, 
 He'll knock you stiffern a bolony sassage. 
 Draw a bee line for Latium, and, be spry !" 
 With that he vanished in the sky-blue sky. 
 A shiver ran through u:Encas'e3 ossibus, — 
 His speechless vox stuck in his chattering faucibus. 
 The hair stood endwise on his powdered wig 
 Like quills upon the fretful porcupig ; 
 He wants to go, and then again he doesn't ; 
 " The situation" is indeed unpluzzent. 
 At length he calls his comrades, — brave SercBtuB, 
 Achates, Porter, Farragut, Sergestus, — 
 And they fit out their gun-boats on the sly 
 To run the sharp blockade of Dido's eye. 
 But Dido guessed the Trojan stratagem, — 
 And like a fury thus pitched into him : 
 " Oh you perfigeous villain ! will you play 
 This heartless game all unbeknown to me ?
 
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 Will not our love, will not iny given liand, 
 
 Will Dido's tears not stay you in my land ? 
 
 Will you attempt the wintry winds to brave, 
 
 .Ind spread your sails upon the treacherous wave, 
 
 Where hungry sharks are rollicking and snarling, 
 
 Where Cappen Scmmes will gobble up my darling ? 
 
 By this great grief which now my bosom wrings, 
 
 By love, and truth, and vows, and all them things. 
 
 Proceed — I do adjure you, — to relent, 
 
 l^'or if you don't I certainly sliall faint." 
 
 Says ^Eneas : '' I am your most o])edient, — 
 
 But to stay here don't seem to be expedient : 
 
 Where'er I wander on this earthly ball, 
 
 1 always will say, you're a gay old gal : 
 
 But if the court do understand herself, 
 
 (^ And she presume she do.) that little elf, 
 
 Ascanius, is fore-ordained to found 
 
 A fust-class empire on Italian ground. 
 
 1 <lon't exactly like to luteal away, 
 
 [Jut then again, I don't know how to stay : 
 
 The ghost of my jirogenit-or, Anchiscs, 
 
 Each night beside my troubled couch arises ; 
 
 The gods command me to get out of this 
 
 And paddle off to nobler destinies." 
 
 •' Oh monster !" cries the disappointed woman, 
 
 •• No goddess is thy nuithcr, iior no huiiian, 
 
 liut thou wast })orn out of the flinty rock 
 
 Xrxd fierce Hyrcanean tigers gave thee suck ! 
 
 Xow, now great Juno, see this savage creature ; 
 
 He don't exhibit one redeeming feature ! 
 
 \ fouiid him poor and hungry as a greyback, 
 
 ►I <liii<(l :iii(l winod and toiisted liini from icot/ hack^
 
 ■ Quid rtirius;-' nut qua t>pc Lybicis icii? uiia d rri- 
 ^i to )uilla movet tautarum ij.lona nTui!i 
 A.b'jiiniutu su!-^ci;tci!j ct suca I'uirtdts iui! 
 
 Arrceti' que Lo-rfwrc yoiiiau ; cl vox f-ttciLus^itei"
 
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 Got up a supper, fed his lousy crew, 
 And heard his egotistic yarn clear througli 1 
 You talk about obeying Jove's decree, — 
 Flapdoodle ! what a pious man you be ! 
 Well, go and leave nie, lone and destitute, — 
 I will not argufy witli such a brute, — 
 But if the gods are worth a single nickel, 
 I hope they'll give you an eternal pickle ! 
 And my indignant ghost, when I am dead, 
 Shall ride your conscience like a pig of lead !" 
 
 Completely overcome with pain and passion, 
 
 She fainted in the most dlstangay fashion. 
 
 The screaming maidens bear their prostrate queen 
 
 Unto a bed with tarlcton counterpane : 
 
 These read the homeopathy book, while those 
 
 Hold a cologne jar to her pallid nose. 
 
 When in the morning from her palace towers, 
 
 She saw his lessening sails, and flashing oars, 
 
 Slie tore her golden locks in ecstacy, 
 
 And pounded on her breast tremendously. 
 
 " Proh, Jupiter ! shall this man get away ? 
 
 Spread sails ! bring firebrands ! ah, what do I say ? 
 
 Why did I not revenge me while he stayed ? 
 
 I might have found his flint heart with my blade, 
 
 Deaconed his pug-nosed boy, while I was able, 
 
 And fricasseed him for his father's table ! 
 
 But now I writhe in impotent dismay, 
 
 While he goes, — (dum it,') — on his heartless way !" 
 
 Her bloodshot eyeballs roll while thus she speaks, 
 
 And purple spots suffuse her quivering cheeks ; 
 
 She mounts, with wild impetuosity.
 
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 A iuneral pile some forty-four feet high, 
 Of seasoned kindling wood, two luindred cords, 
 And thus pronounces these, her latest Avords : 
 " Behold, I go the way of all mankind ; 
 I've done the work by changeless Fate assigned, 
 I've built a city, seen my finished towers, — 
 that the Trojan had not touched my shores !" 
 With these remarks the deadly dirk slie grabs, 
 And socks herself severial powerful jabs. 
 Forth leaps the boiling life-blood, and the crowd 
 Their fallen queen survey, with clamours loud ; 
 Loud clamours and loud lamentations rise, 
 Roar through the city, and assault the skies. 
 Thrice she supports herself upon her elbow. 
 And strains her eyes to sec lier iufif?^^ beau. — 
 Thrice does she seek tii<- ])la/ing light of day, 
 And having found it, gr(_»aning. turns away. 
 
 Then Jmio, pitying her agony, 
 
 Sent Iris down, the struggling soul to fre<j. 
 
 The dewy Iris, on her safllron wings, 
 
 With thousand radiant cncolorings, 
 
 .Shot through the vajxirs with immortal sj>eed, 
 
 And stood above the death-devoted head : 
 
 " This lock to Pluto's realms I bear away, 
 
 And now release thee from this ruined clay." 
 
 .So saying, she cut the lock of golden hair^ 
 
 And llff; departed on the sightless air.
 
 . ERRATA. 
 
 Page 8, eighth verse irom the top, instead of '• Theu responded Venus," 
 read, " Then Venus responded." 
 
 Pa^e 11, last verse, for '' Assuras,'' read, "'Assumes."
 
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