With rushing troops the plains are
cover'd o'er,
And thundering footsteps shake the
sounding shore.
Along the river's level meads they
stand,
Thick as in spring the flowers adorn
the land,
Or leaves the trees; or thick as
insects play,
The wandering nation of a summer's
day:
That, drawn by milky steams, at
evening hours,
In gather'd swarms surround the
rural bowers;
From pail to pail with busy murmur
run
The gilded legions, glittering in
the sun.
So throng'd, so close, the Grecian
squadrons stood
In radiant arms, and thirst for
Trojan blood.
Each leader now his scatter'd force
conjoins
In close array, and forms the
deepening lines.
Not with more ease the skilful
shepherd-swain
Collects his flocks from thousands
on the plain.
The king of kings, majestically
tall,
Towers o'er his armies, and
outshines them all;
Like some proud bull, that round the
pastures leads
His subject herds, the monarch of
the meads,
Great as the gods, the exalted chief
was seen,
His strength like Neptune, and like
Mars his mien;99
Jove o'er his eyes celestial glories
spread,
And
dawning conquest played around his head.
Say, virgins, seated round the
throne divine,
All-knowing goddesses! immortal
nine!100
Since earth's wide regions, heaven's
umneasur'd height,
And hell's abyss, hide nothing from
your sight,
(We, wretched mortals! lost in
doubts below,
But guess by rumour, and but boast
we know,)
O say what heroes, fired by thirst
of fame,
Or urged by wrongs, to Troy's
destruction came.
To count them all, demands a
thousand tongues,
A throat of brass, and adamantine
lungs.
Daughters of Jove, assist! inspired
by you
The mighty labour dauntless I
pursue;
What crowded armies, from what
climes they bring,
Their
names, their numbers, and their chiefs I sing.
n Here is a refrence to all those ready top redeam troy amd
thirst for the corrupt blood of the bad troyjans.
n "Say first, for heav'n hides nothing from thy
view."
n —"Paradise Lost," i. 27.
n "Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni
n Mandassero a Cristiani, e di quai parti:
n Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge
n Debil aura di fama appena giunge."
n The call to all mime virgins and just ones to count and make
sure all goes justly reinforces the lawfulness from the earth to heaven from
down up.
n Note the virgins are in heaven or on a heavenly earth and the
mortals fighting have fallen to a lower plain or battle and can do no one in
heaven or an earth harm
n The battle dimention is lawer than the regular life earth.
n \
A failed on goes to hell and heroes
are on a higher plain than the mortals but not where the virgins or non
fighters are, the civilians.
The heroes are overarching the mortals
ion the plain of battle BUT ON A DIFERENT DIMENTION OF IT AND AS LONG AS THEY STAY VIRTUOES STAY SAFE AND UPHIGH.
THE MASSES OF TRIOOPS ARE DESCRIBED
AS IT SOUNDS LIKE BOTH SIDES ARE ABOUT TO GO TO WAR
AJAX MEANS SUBMILITARY COMANDER.
AT THE END OF BATTLE ALL GET
JUDGEMED And those who broke no rules of virtue are returned, the ones with
high virtue go to a higher place and the ones who broke the law to hades and
hell will go.
till bnext week
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