Over your shoulders bent with grief,

The while with Troy's slow-cooling dust85

Ye sprinkle them. Lay bare your arms,

Strip from your breasts their covering;

Why veil your beauty? Shame itself90

Is held in captive bonds. And now

Let your hands wave free to the quickening blows

That resound to your wailings. So, now are ye ready,

And thus it is well. I behold once more

My old-time Trojan band. Now stoop