Soon as he saw Æneas advancing through the grass to
meet him, he stretched out both his hands with eager
movement, tears gushed over his cheeks, and words escaped
his lips: “And are you come at last? has love fulfilled
a father’s hopes and surmounted the perils of the 5
way? is it mine to look on your face, my son, and listen
and reply as we talked of old? Yes; I was even thinking
so in my own mind. I was reckoning that it would
be, counting over the days. Nor has my longing played
me false. Oh, the lands and the mighty seas from which 10