Will be tasked on land; though Latium’s lord

Prepares to hail the offer of thy sword,

Thou’llt wish thyself soon afar! Look! a flood—

Tiber foaming to the sea—of men’s blood.

Horrors Simois, Xanthus showed might seem

Repeated by thy loath fancy in a dream.

Nor even wanting to this war—fell war—

An Achilles, Goddess born; Troy’s ill star,

Queen Juno; and, of worse augury yet

For Trojans, or, of snares that Fate has set