And o’er the land a gloomy tyrant reigns.

Next Macronisi is adjacent seen,

Where adverse winds detained the Spartan queen;

For whom, in arms combined, the Grecian host,

With vengeance fired, invaded Phrygia’s coast;

For whom so long they laboured to destroy

The lofty turrets of imperial Troy;

Here driven by Juno’s rage, the hapless dame,

Forlorn of heart, from ruined Ilion came;

The port an image bears of Parian stone,