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THE BURNING OF TROY.
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Through the vapour, through the flareOf the lambent forky flashesAwful forms beheld I thereStriding o'er the steaming ashes.Each hostile God 'twas mine to knowWith threatening arm and angry browReveal'd amid destruction's glow.[1]
  1. ↑ Compare Virgil, Æn. II. 608:—
    Hìc, ubi disjectas moles avulsaque saxisSaxa vides, mixtoque undantem pulvere fumum,Neptunus muros, magnoque emota tridentiFundamenta quatit, totamque ab sedibus urbemEruit. Hìc Juno Scæas'sævissima portasPrima tenet, sociumque furens a navibus agmen,Ferro accincta, vocat.Jam summas arces Tritonia, respice, PallasInsedit, nimbo effulgens, et Gorgone'sævâ.Ipse Pater Danais animos viresque secundasSufficit: 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 TrojæNumina magna Deûm.
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