Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
No day shall make your memory fail
From off the heart of time.
Quotes from The Aeneid of Virgil — John Conington
1825–1869 England
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E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.
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Then come the clamour and the blare,
And shouts and clarions rend the air.
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'Tis thus that men to heaven aspire:
Go on and raise your glories higher.
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Myself not ignorant of woe,
Compassion I have learned to show.
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This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.
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While memory lasts and pulses beat,
The thought of Dido shall be sweet.
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Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
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My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.
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They can because they think they can.
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Now for a heart that scorns dismay:
Now for a soul prepared.
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If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.
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A lethargy of sleep,
Most like to death, so calm, so deep.
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She calls it marriage now; such name
She chooses to conceal her shame.
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Now dews precipitate the night,
And setting stars to rest invite.
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War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood
I see incarnadined with blood.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Conington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.