What fame the soldiers with their captain share,

And the vast circuit of the fatal war;

For you, in singing martial facts, excel;

You best remember, and alone can tell.

There stood a tower, amazing to the sight,

Built up of beams, and of stupendous height:

Art, and the nature of the place, conspired

To furnish all the strength that war required.

To level this, the bold Italians join;

The wary Trojans obviate their design;