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  • VI Blithe it was to see the twins, Right goodly youths and tall, Marching from Alba Longa To their old grandsire's hall. Along their path fresh ga...

  • V The troubled river knew them, And smoothed his yellow foam, And gently rocked the cradle That bore the fate of Rome. The ravening she-wolf knew them...

  • IV They were doomed by a bloody king, They were doomed by a lying priest, They were cast on the raging flood, They were tracked by the raging beast; R...

  • III And every Alban burgher Hath donned his whitest gown; And every head in Alba Weareth a poplar crown; And every Alban doorpost With boughs and flow...

  • II In Alba's lake no fisher His net to-day is flinging; On the dark rind of Alba's oaks To-day no axe is ringing; The yoke hangs o'er the ...

  • I Now slain is King Amulius, Of the great Sylvian line, Who reigned in Alba Longa, On the throne of Aventine. Slain is the Ponfiff Camers, Who spake t...

  • XL And all the people trembled, And pale grew every cheek; And Sergius the High Pontiff Alone found voice to speak: ``The gods who live forever Have f...

  • XXXIX Then burst from that great concourse A shout that shook the towers, And some ran north, and some ran south, Crying,``The day is ours!'' ...

  • XXXVIII ``Hail to the great Asylum! Hail to the hill-tops seven! Hail to the fire that burns for aye, And the shield that fell from heaven! This day, ...

  • XXXVII Semponius Atratinus Sat in the Eastern Gate, Beside him were three Fathers, Each in his chair of state; Fabius, whose nine stout grandsons That...