1 Dido sways the sceptre, who flying her brother set sail from the Tyrian town.
2 Haste and awake, O men, and sit down to the thwarts; shake out sail speedily.
3 I sail to sea an exile, with my comrades and son and the gods of household and state.
4 I sail past Pantagias' mouth with its living stone, the Megarian bay, and low-lying Thapsus.
5 Southern winds stretch the sails; we scud over the foam-flecked waters, whither wind and pilot called our course.
6 As the cry leaves his lips, a gust of the shrill north strikes full on the sail and raises the waves up to heaven.
7 This dwelling likewise we abandon; and leaving some few behind, spread our sails and run over the waste sea in our hollow wood.
8 The sails drop; we swing back to the oars; without delay the sailors strongly toss up the foam, and sweep through the green water.
9 With twenty sail did I climb the Phrygian sea; oracular tokens led me on; my goddess mother pointed the way; scarce seven survive the shattering of wave and wind.
10 But when the last rites are duly paid, and the mound smoothed over the grave, good Aeneas, now the high seas are hushed, bears on under sail and leaves his haven.
11 Open now the gates of Helicon, goddesses, and stir the song of the band that come the while with Aeneas from the Tuscan borders, and sail in armed ships overseas.
12 I broke away, I confess it, from death; I burst my bonds, and lurked all night darkling in the sedge of the marshy pool, till they might set their sails, if haply they should set them.
13 Scarcely had the first summer set in, when lord Anchises bids us spread our sails to fortune, and weeping I leave the shores and havens of my country, and the plains where once was Troy.
14 Here with seven sail gathered of all his company Aeneas enters; and disembarking on the land of their desire the Trojans gain the chosen beach, and set their feet dripping with brine upon the shore.
15 Hope comes to kindle wrath; they hurl their missiles strongly; even as under black clouds cranes from the Strymon utter their signal notes and sail clamouring across the sky, and noisily stream down the gale.
16 As they again disport with clapping wings, and utter their notes as they circle the sky in company, even so do these ships and crews of thine either lie fast in harbour or glide under full sail into the harbour mouth.
17 And now Dawn broke, and, leaving the saffron bed of Tithonus, shed her radiance anew over the world; when the Queen saw from her watch-tower the first light whitening, and the fleet standing out under squared sail, and discerned shore and haven empty of all their oarsmen.
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