And greenly blooms Feronia’s grove;

Where Satura’s unlovely mere

In sullen quiet sleeps,

And Ufens gropes through marshland drear 40

And hides him in the deeps.

Last marches forth for Latium’s sake

Camilla fair, the Volscian maid,

A troop of horsemen in her wake

In pomp of gleaming steel arrayed;

Stern warrior queen! those tender hands 5