The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse

THE AENEIDS OF VIRGIL DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY WILLIAM MORRIS AUTHOR OF 'THE EARTHLY PARADISE' _THIRD IMPRESSION_ LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1900 THE AENEIDS OF VIRGIL. BOOK I. ARGUMENT. AENEAS AND HIS TROJANS BEING DRIVEN TO LIBYA BY A TEMPEST, HAVE GOOD WELCOME OF DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE. _Lo I am he who led the song through slender reed to cry,_ _And then, come forth from out the woods, the fields that are thereby_ _In woven verse I bade obey the hungry tillers' need:_ _Now I, who sang their merry toil, sing Mars and dreadful deed._ I sing of arms, I sing of him, who from the Trojan land Thrust forth by Fate, to Italy and that Lavinian strand…

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