yet far removed—rich and mighty, and formed to all

roughness by war’s[10] iron trade—a spot where Juno, it

was said, loved to dwell more than in all the world beside, 20

Samos[11] holding but the second place. Here was her

armour, here her chariot—here to fix by her royal act

the empire of the nations, could Fate be brought to assent,

was even then her aim, her cherished scheme. But she

had heard that the blood of Troy was sowing the seed of a 25

race to overturn one day those Tyrian towers—from that

seed a nation, monarch of broad realms and glorious in