In patient, deep disdain;
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.
Matthew Arnold.
Genseric
Genseric, King of the Vandals, who, having laid waste seven lands,
From Tripolis far as Tangier, from the sea to the great desert sands,
Was lord of the Moor and the African,—thirsting anon for new slaughter,
Sail’d out of Carthage, and sail’d o’er the Mediterranean water;