Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,

And in the doubtful war, before he won

The Latian realm, and built the destined town;

His banished gods restored to rites divine,

And settled sure succession in his line,

From whence the race of Alban fathers come

And the long glories of majestic Rome.

—Dryden.

I sing of arms, I sing of him, who from the Trojan land,