the rest, a mighty mass of promiscuous carnage, they burn 15

uncounted and unhonoured; and thereon the plains

through their length and breadth gleam with the thickening

rivalry of funeral fires. The third morrow had withdrawn

the chill shadows from the sky: the mourners were

levelling the piles of ashes and sweeping the mingled bones 20

from the hearths, and heaping over them mounds of earth

where the heat yet lingers. But within the walls, in the

city of Latium’s wealthy king, the wailing is preëminent,

and largest the portion of that long agony. Here are