XXXVI Then the fierce trumpet-flourish From earth to heaven arose, The kites know well the long stern swell That bids the Romans close. Then the good ...
XXV So answered those strange horsemen, And each couched low his spear； And forthwith all the ranks of Rome Were bold, and of good cheer： And on the t...
XXXIV ``By many names men call us； In many lands we dwell： Well Samothracia knows us； Cyrene knows us well. Our house in gay Tarentum Is hung each mor...
XXXIII And all who saw them trembled, And pale grew every cheek； And Aulus the Dictator Scarce gathered voice to speak. ``Say by what name men call yo...
XXXII So spake he； and was buckling Tighter black Auster's band, When he was aware of a princely pair That rode at his right hand. So like they we...
XXXI And Aulus the Dictator Stroked Auster's raven mane, With heed he looked unto the girths, With heed unto the rein. ``Now bear me well, black A...
XXX But, like a graven image, Black Auster kept his place, And ever wistfully he looked Into his master's face. The raven-mane that daily, With pa...
XXIX Fast, fast, with heels wild spurning, The dark-gray charger fled： He burst through ranks of fighting men, He sprang o'er heaps of dead. His b...
XXVIII All round them paused the battle, While met in mortal fray The Roman and the Tusculan, The horses black and gray. Herminius smote Mamilius Thro...
XXVII Mamilius spied Herminius, And dashed across the way. ``Herminius！ I have sought thee Through many a bloody day. One of us two, Herminius, Shall ...