of

And wickedness of them that have command

And Rome a room; but the decrees of God

Shall all of them be perfectly fulfilled.

Pure air, full of years, strong, and undisturbed

Even birds and creeping things and beasts of earth.

Of happy ones! For from the starry heaven

Which of all things is excellent for men,

And kindness, confidence, and love of guests;

A family of bastards and of slaves.

A family of bastards and of slaves.

And of each land the sun looks down upon

Shall come a man unheard of, shoulder-clad

Shall forthwith perish by the race of those

Producing one root which the bane of men

With a city, men and all, of the Earth-shaker

Dorylaeum, of dark ancient Phrygia,

Earth-shaker; dens of earth shall he break up

And walls demolish. And not signs of good

But a beginning of evil shall be made;

The baneful violence of general war

Ye'll have, sons of AEneas, Dative blood

Of Ilus from the soil. But afterwards

But to thee most of all she'll bear and cause

False writer and of doubtful native land;

Of Ilium, not truthfully, indeed,

But skillfully; for of my verse and meters

Will much embellish helmed chiefs of war,

Hector of Priam and Achilles, son

Of Peleus, and the others who have care

Shall also works of recompense receive.

Holding by lot a strait of narrow sea,

Shall break off. And, Byzantium of Ares,

Of Lycia, from thy peaks by yawning chasms

Of opened rock shall babbling water flow,

Daughter of day, shalt long be unenslaved,

The power of Persia, and most horribly

Shall the people of Europe and Asia suffer pain.

O sign of Cyprus, may an earthquake waste

Well made, and very precious wealth of men

And stench of brimstone heavily oppressed.

Shalt slay thyself. And thou shalt not of men

Be mother, but a nurse of beasts of prey.

Be mother, but a nurse of beasts of prey.

Beautiful city of the Carians

Chatter of teeth to the Campanians comes

Because of wasting famine; Corsica

Shall by great storms of winter and the strokes

of a holy God sink down in ocean depths,

Great wonder to the of the sea.

Will Hades wed, and of as many youths

O happy land of Mysians, suddenly

A message of the mighty God, and he

Woe, woe to the race of Phœnician men

Not one of you shall in the common light

Abide before the shining of the sun,

Nor of life shall there any longer be

Number and tribe, because of unjust speech

Cities and of the cities the foundations.

United with the sons of Dardanus

Woe also to the soil of Lycia,

And those of Mysia and Phrygia.

And many nations of Pamphylians,

Of a strange tongue shall fall. How now may I

Of each speak fitly? For on all the nations

Of chosen men; and they shall tear in pieces

Many fat flocks of sheep of men, and herds

Many fat flocks of sheep of men, and herds

Of horses and of mules and lowing kine;

Of horses and of mules and lowing kine;

With fetters by their foes of foreign tongue,

Of battle and come to their help in life.

A trembling of the knees. And there shall fly

And lack of cultivation; and on earth

A much-distressing fire; and of all men

These things and leave the face of God the mighty?

Images many of gods that are dead,

Because of which ye were taught foolish thoughts.

But when the anger of the mighty God

The face of God the mighty. And all souls

Of men, with mighty groaning lifting up

Of cows and bellowing bulls unto the temple

Of the great God, she from ill-sounding war

Of godless men, even when that fated day

Of godly men who, keeping to the counsels

And mind of the Most High, shall honor much

With sacrifices of fat bulls, choice rams,

Firstlings of sheep and the fat thighs of lambs,

Firstlings of sheep and the fat thighs of lambs,

Having obtained the law of the Most High,

Nor pay they honor to the works of men

Made of gold, brass, silver, and ivory,

Nor statues of dead gods of wood and stone

Nor statues of dead gods of wood and stone

[Besmeared clay, figures of the painter's art],

Of Persians and Galatians and all Asia,

The immortal Sire of all men, but revered

Conceal in clefts of rocks, when a young king,

The seventh of Egypt, shall rule his own land,

Reckoned from the dominion of the Greeks,

Over the spacious surface of the sea.