of

Revered of old, shall perish from its base,

Against thee, mounting up of its own will

Because of sorrow for which Rhea came,

Mother of Zeus, and there continued long.

The river of deep eddies and deep flow,

(Pretending once to bear the forms, of beasts).

Of the isthmus, mighty king of mighty Rome,

Of the isthmus, mighty king of mighty Rome,

And of men stained with blood had he been formed.

And he shall come to monarchs of the Medes

Of whom I justly sang the praise, he burned;

Because of honor, which was first assigned

And the land of Italy, because, of which

And the land of Italy, because, of which

Thou city of the Latin land, unclean

As of old, when the mighty God received

O Python, who wast justly called of old

Reckless in evils, treasury of toils,

Through all time. Thou didst full of years become

A mourning on account of lawless deeds.

And a mighty man of the Ethiopians

Pentapolis, a man of mighty, strength

Of mortals who shall pitiably weep

Of thy destruction cease thy hateful wail.

Of the Sidonians, a Phœnician, led

Of Capricorn and Taurus in the Twins

Shall wind about the middle of the heaven,

'so that the whole land of the Ethiops

Shall perish in the midst of fire and groans.

Of the isthmus, until all shall look at him

No earlier of all the kings together.

The flesh of parents. For unto all men

because of the great city and just people

Both a beginning and great end of toil,--

Of suffering creation and of part

Of suffering creation and of part

Of evils, and for men a great curse, who

Of mortals wished for thee? Who has not been

Because of this, thou narrow-minded one

Leader of greatest evils, both a sword

Both a beginning and great end of toil,--

Of suffering creation and of part

Of suffering creation and of part

Restored again,--hear, O thou curse of men,

A race divine of blessed heavenly Jews

God's city in mid portions of the land,

Their trophies for an age of evil men.

By far the noblest of the Hebrews stretched,

By reason of the sword, rich child of God,

By reason of the sword, rich child of God,

Of Greeks keep revel round about thy land,

With sacrifices of all kinds and prayers

Honored of God. All who endure the toils

Of small affliction and the just shall have

And there shall be a rain of gleaming fire

The Lord of all things, the immortal God

The holy land of the only pious men

I mourn and the race of Ionians

Down on the head of him that is impure.

And in the place of winter there shall be

And blazing thunderbolts men of ill-will,

Shall come unto the gates of Ephesus

Cast down by hands of godless men unjust

Thou shalt have, even a land of many tears,

Beside the waters of Maeander, thee

Of Phœbus; sometime shall a thunderbolt

And the wise care and prudent plan of men.

Father of all, be gracious to the land

Of Judah, well fed, fruit-abounding, great,

The works thrice wretched of the Thracians

Of the Assyrians shall throw a yoke

Across thee; battle of the Thracians comes

Over the land of Macedonia

A king of Egypt, and a barbarous clime

Shall waste the strength of captains. Lydians,

And the unwasting flames of the sun himself

Of the moon again be in the latest time,

Himself is Lord, the overseer of all

In front of heaven. And then will he himself

Their herds of lambs and sheep and calves and goats

To lifeless Hermae and to gods of stone.

But let the law of wisdom be your guide

And the glory of the righteous; lest sometime

Each race of men and shameless tribe of life,

Each race of men and shameless tribe of life,

In the last time, at the turning of the moon,

And from the limits of the earth shall come

All of them, as none other ever did,

And in the plains of Macedonia

Of winter then shall blow upon the earth,

Of lightning, murky darkness, night in heaven,

Then the destruction pitiable of war.

Who were left, having made proof of wickedness,

And evil-working boldness, who of old

Of revelry; for by thee virgin maids

Of sacred wood that fondly nourisheth;

Before thee was a much-loved house of old

God's watchful temple, brought forth of his saints

For not without the rites of burial

Shall one praise God out of the unseen earth,