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THE BURNING OF TROY.
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Through the vapour, through the flare
Of the lambent forky flashes
Awful forms beheld I there
Striding o'er the steaming ashes.
Each hostile God 'twas mine to know
With threatening arm and angry brow
Reveal'd amid destruction's glow.[1]

  1. ↑ Compare Virgil, Æn. II. 608:—
    Hìc, ubi disjectas moles avulsaque saxis
    Saxa vides, mixtoque undantem pulvere fumum,
    Neptunus muros, magnoque emota tridenti
    Fundamenta quatit, totamque ab sedibus urbem
    Eruit. Hìc Juno Scæas'sævissima portas
    Prima tenet, sociumque furens a navibus agmen,
    Ferro accincta, vocat.
    Jam summas arces Tritonia, respice, Pallas
    Insedit, nimbo effulgens, et Gorgone'sævâ.
    Ipse Pater Danais animos viresque secundas
    Sufficit: ipse deos in Dardana suscitat arma.
    Eripe, nate, fugam, finemque impone labori.
    Nusquam abero, et tutum patrio te limine sistam.
    Dixerat: et spissis noctis se condidit umbris.
    Adparent diræ facies, inimicaque Trojæ
    Numina magna Deûm.
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