Yet have I lived!—and lived for noble ends!

Hard is the task, O Queen! that you impose, To tear my bosom with reviving woes.

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

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Arms, and the man who first, by Fate's command, From Ilion flying, sought Italia's strand, And gain'd Lavinium, are my themes of song. Long toss'd by waves, on land he suffer'd long: From power supernal, such his doom of woe; Pursued by …

O! trust not to the horse, my Trojan Friends! Whate'er it means, it means but to deceive. I dread the Grecians even when they give.

And while the memory of self remains, While life's warm spirit quickens in my veins, Still shall your worth be treasured in my breast; And still Elissa's virtues be confess'd.