Translated by A. Z. Foreman - Arms and the Man (Aeneid I. 1-11) lyrics

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Translated by A. Z. Foreman - Arms and the Man (Aeneid I. 1-11) lyrics

Warfare I sing of and the war-made man from Troy; that first one,  the Fates' refugee, who from shores of his birth  bound for Italy reached Lavinia's beaches. How battered he was over the hard of the land,  over high deep seas by violence on high  as vicious Juno remembered him in immortal rage; Much too he suffered  of sorrow and battle to found a city,  settling his gods in the land of Latium;  whence the Latin race, the Alban lords,  and lofty Rome's walls. O Muse, make me now   remember the causes. What almighty pride  was pierced? What deep grievance so harrowed   the gods' high queen that she forced a man  famously righteous to weather in god-fear   such wuthering ordeals, to face such labors?  Can loathing so great Truly sputter  in the spirits of heaven?