And musters evils o’er their sinful heads.

She with the dark of air her form arrays

And [56]walks in awful grief the city-ways:

Her wail is heard, her tear upbraiding falls

[57]O’er their stain’d manners, their devoted walls.

But they who never from the right have stray’d,

Who as the citizen the stranger aid;

[58]They and their cities flourish: genial Peace

Dwells in their borders, and their youth increase:

Nor Jove, whose radiant eyes behold afar,