Against the Romans, and have curbed them well.
Goths shall they be; who, bright with glory's star,
Leaving their fame through all the world to swell,
Will in thy bosom seek repose from strife,
And give their sturdy powers a higher life.
In coming years will Attila, that man
Of wrath, avenge thy wrongs with bloody hands;
Will place the hordes of Rome beneath the ban,
And make them subject to his stern commands;
And, forcing way into the Vatican,[6]