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,