Narrow deckways ill-strewn, too,—what the day's woe

We did not groan at getting for our portion?

As for land-things, again, on went more hatred!

Since beds were ours hard by the foemen's ramparts,

And, out of heaven and from the earth, the meadow

Dews kept a-sprinkle, an abiding damage

Of vestures, making hair a wild-beast matting.

Winter, too, if one told of it—bird-slaying—

Such as, unbearable, Idaian snow brought—

Or heat, when waveless, on its noontide couches