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 ... And what a folk from Italy the world may yet await, Most glorious souls, to bear our name adown the ways of fate. Yea, I will set it forth in words, and thou thy tale shalt hear: Lo ye, the youth that yonder leans upon the headless spear, 760 Fate gives him nighest place today; he first of all shall rise, Blent blood of Troy and Italy, unto the earthly skies: Silvius is he, an Alban name, thy son, thy latest born; He whom thy wife Lavinia now, when thin thy life is worn, Beareth in woods to be a king and get a kingly race, ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... Thou give ever To me whatever My life is needing? May I be heeding Ever the faithful word spoken by Thee. God is the highest, The greatest, the nighest, Gracious is ever, Is changeable never, Of all our treasures ...
— Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs - Translated by John Kelly • Paul Gerhardt |
