{ Thy body on thy parents I bestow,

{ To rest thy soul, at least, if shadows know,

{ Or have a sense of human things below.

There to thy fellow-ghosts with glory tell,

'Twas by the great Æneas' hand I fell."

With this, his distant friends he beckons near,

Provokes their duty, and prevents their fear:

Himself assists to lift him from the ground,

With clotted locks, and blood that welled from out the wound.

Meantime, his father, now no father, stood,