Still, with his pain a joy—“My Cape, my name!”

For Death is ne’er so dead as to be dead to Fame!

Farewell to him. Æneas, with his Guide,

Approached, not unobserved, the black stream’s side

Charon was on the watch as they pursued

Their way along the sad and silent wood.

Scarcely had they emerged when he began

To scold, and Æneas first: “Halt, armed man,

Whoever thou art! No step further! Why

Wouldest thou cross? For ghosts alone I ply