a name on Hesperia’s mighty seaboard is thy monument,

if that be renown. So when good Æneas had paid the last 5

dues and raised a funeral mound, and had waited for the

calming of the deep, he spreads sail and leaves the harbour.

Nightward the breezes blow, nor does the fair Moon scorn

to show the way: her rippling light makes the sea shine

again. The next land they skirt is the coast of Circe’s 10

realm, where in queenly state the daughter of the Sun

thrills her forest fastness with never-ending song, and in

her haughty mansion burns fragrant cedar to give light by