Vainly shall you; in Venus' favour strong,Your tresses comb, and for your dames divideOn peaceful lyre the several parts of song;Vainly in chamber hideFrom spears and Gnossian arrows, barb'd with fate,And battle's din, and Ajax in the chaseUnconquer'd; those adulterous locks, though late,Shall gory dust deface.Hark! 'tis the death-cry of your race! look back!Ulysses comes, and Pylian Nestor grey;See! Salaminian Teucer on your track,And Sthenelus, in the frayVersed, or with whip and rein, should need require,No laggard. Merion too your eyes shall knowFrom far. Tydides, fiercer than his sire,Pursues you, all aglow;Him, as the stag forgets to graze for fright,Seeing the wolf at distance in the glade,And flies, high panting, you shall fly, despiteBoasts to your leman made.