"Which stir the martial soul. Nor had the youth
"Disrob'd him of his virgin dress, when grasp'd
"As in his hand the shield and lance he held,
"I cry'd'--O, goddess-born! reserv'd for thee
"Is Ilium's fate. The mighty Trojan walls
"Why to o'erthrow demur'st thou?--Him I seiz'd.
"Sent the brave youth, brave actions to atchieve:
"And all his actions as my own I claim.
"My spear then conquer'd Telephus in fight;
"And after heal'd the suppliant vanquish'd foe.
"Thebes low by me was laid. I, you must own,
"Lesbos, and Tenedos, and Scyros took;
"Chrysa, and Cylla, bright Apollo's towns.
"My arm Lyrnessus' walls shook, and laid low.
"But other deeds I well may pass: since I
"Gave to the host what dreadful Hector slew;
"By me renowned Hector fell. Those arms
"I claim, who gave those arms, which to the Greeks
"Achilles found. Living, those arms I gave;
"Him dead, those arms I gave, again demand.

"The wrongs of one through every Grecian breast
"Spread wide; a thousand ships th' Euboean port
"Of Aulis fill'd. The long-expected gales
"Or came not, or blew adverse to the fleet.
"The rigid oracle Atrides bade
"His guiltless daughter sacrifice to calm
"Ruthless Diana. Stern the sire deny'd,
"And rag'd against the gods: the sovereign all
"Lost in the father. I with soothing words
"The parent's bosom mollify'd, and turn'd
"To thoughts of public good. Still, I confess,
"(And such confession will the king excuse;)
"An arduous cause I pleaded, where my judge
"Was by affection warp'd. The people's weal,
"His brother, and the lofty rank he held
"Mov'd him at length; and glory with his blood
"He bought. Then to the mother was I sent,
"Where reasoning had no force, but subtle craft.
"There had you sent the son of Telamon,
"Still had jour sails the needful breezes lack'd.
"Sent was I also to the Ilian towers,
"A daring envoy. Troy's fam'd court I saw;
"Troy's court I enter'd, then with heroes fill'd.
"There undismay'd, I pleaded all that Greece
"Bade for their common cause; Paris accus'd;
"Helen demanded, and the stolen spoil;
"And Priam and Antenor both convinc'd.
"But Paris, Paris' brethren, and the crowd
"Who aided in the rape, their impious hands
"Could scarce withhold. (Thou, Menelaues, know'st,
"Who then with me the dawning of the war
"Didst prove in danger.) Long the tale, to speak
"Of all my deeds have done, the publ