Part 19 (1/2)
Alone, unguarded, once he dared to go, And feast, incircled by the Theban foe; There braved, and vanquish'd, ave hiht
Thou too no less hast been my constant care; Thy hands I arm'd, and sent thee forth to war: But thee or fear deters, or sloth detains; No drop of all thy father warms thy veins”
The chief thus answered mild: ”Immortal maid!
I own thy presence, and confess thy aid
Not fear, thou know'st, withholds me from the plains, Nor sloth hath seizedGods thou bad'st me turn my spear, And Venus only found resistance here
Hence, Goddess! heedful of thy high coive bands: For Mars, the ho round the field”
Then thus Minerva:--”Brave Tydides, hear!
Not Mars hiht i horse: Pallas commands, and Pallas lends thee force
Rash, furious, blind, fro coe proives the Grecians, now the Trojans aid”(159)
She said, and to the steeds approaching near, Drew froorous power the tree; and Dioreat a hero, and so great a God
She snatch'd the reins, she lash'd with all her force, And full on Mars i horse: But first, to hide her heavenly visage, spread Black Orcus' helmet o'er her radiant head
[Illustration: DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS]
DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS
Just then gigantic Periphas lay slain, The strongest warrior of the aetolian train; The God, who slew him, leaves his prostrate prize Stretch'd where he fell, and at Tydides flies
Now rushi+ng fierce, in equal ar Greek, the dreadful God of war!
Full at the chief, above his courser's head, From Mars's arm the enorlance Far fro immortal lance
Then threw the force of Tydeus' warlike son; The javelin hiss'd; the Goddess urged it on: Where the broad cincture girt his arroin received the wound
Fro steel Mars belloith the pain: Loud as the roar encountering ar field
Both araze around; And earth and heaven re-bellow to the sound
As vapours blown by Auster's sultry breath, Pregnant with plagues, and shedding seeds of death, Beneath the rage of burning Sirius rise, Choke the parch'd earth, and blacken all the skies; In such a cloud the God froh o'er the dusky ind scales the heaven
Wild with his pain, he sought the bright abodes, There sullen sat beneath the sire of Gods, Show'd the celestial blood, and with a groan Thus pour'd his plaints before the iitious facts survey, And brook the furies of this daring day?
For e, And Gods on Gods exert eternal rage: Frohter with the shi+eld and spear; Thou gavest that fury to the realht
All heaven beside reveres thy sovereign sway, Thy voice we hear, and thy behests obey: 'Tis hers to offend, and even offending share Thy breast, thy counsels, thy distinguish'd care: So boundless she, and thou so partial grown, Well may we deem the wondrous birth thy own
Now frantic Dio hand: The heavenly Venus first his fury found, Me next encountering, me he dared to wound; Vanquish'd I fled; even I, the God of fight, Froht
Else hadst thou seenunder loads of slain!
Or pierced with Grecian darts, for ages lie, Condeh fated not to die”
Hi, with a wrathful look The lord of thunders view'd, and stern bespoke: ”Tostrain?
Of lawless force shall lawless Mars coled skies, Thou most unjust, most odious in our eyes!
Inhuhter, and the rage of fight
No bounds, no law, thy fiery temper quells, And all thy mother in thy soul rebels
In vain our threats, in vain our poe use; She gives the exas thou shall notsince thou art fro, hadst thou hence been thrown, Where chain'd on burning rocks the titans groan”