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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472416" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>First Verses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TRANSLATION FROM THE ENEID, BOOK I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE god looked out upon the troubled deep<br>Waked into tumult from its placid sleep;<br>The flame of anger kindles in his eye<br>As the wild waves ascend the lowering sky;<br>He lifts his head above their awful height<br>And to the distant fleet directs his sight,<br>Now borne aloft upon the billow's crest,<br>Struck by the bolt or by the winds oppressed,<br>And well he knew that Juno's vengeful ire<br>Frowned from those clouds and sparkled in that fire.<br>On rapid pinions as they whistled by<br>He calls swift Zephyrus and Eurus nigh<br>Is this your glory in a noble line<br>To leave your confines and to ravage mine?<br>Whom I--but let these troubled waves subside--<br>Another tempest and I'll quell your pride!<br>Go--bear our message to your master's ear,<br>That wide as ocean I am despot here;<br>Let him sit monarch in his barren caves,<br>I wield the trident and control the waves<br>He said, and as the gathered vapors break<br>The swelling ocean seemed a peaceful lake;<br>To lift their ships the graceful nymphs essayed<br>And the strong trident lent its powerful aid;<br>The dangerous banks are sunk beneath the main,<br>And the light chariot skims the unruffled plain.<br>As when sedition fires the public mind,<br>And maddening fury leads the rabble blind,<br>The blazing torch lights up the dread alarm,<br>Rage points the steel and fury nerves the arm,<br>Then, if some reverend Sage appear in sight,<br>They stand--they gaze, and check their headlong flight,--<br>He turns the current of each wandering breast<br>And hushes every passion into rest,--<br>Thus by the power of his imperial arm<br>The boiling ocean trembled into calm;<br>With flowing reins the father sped his way<br>And smiled serene upon rekindled day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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THE god looked out upon the troubled deep
Waked into tumult from its placid sleep;
The flame of anger kindles in his eye
As the wild waves ascend the lowering sky;
He lifts his head above their awful height
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