"'Far off there lies, across the rolling wave, An ancient land, which Greeks Hesperia name; Her soil is fruitful and her people brave.
Th' OEnotrians held it once, by later fame The name Italia from their chief they claim.
Thence sprang great Dardanus; there lies thy seat; Thence sire Iasius and the Trojans came.
Rise, and thy parent with these tidings greet, To seek Ausonian shores, for Jove denies thee Crete.' XXIV.

"Awed by the vision and the voice divine ('Twas no mere dream; their very looks I knew, I saw the fillets round their temples twine, And clammy sweat did all my limbs bedew) Forthwith, upstarting, from the couch I flew, And hands and voice together raised in prayer, And wine unmixt upon the altars threw.
This done, to old Anchises I repair, Pleased with the rites fulfilled, and all the tale declare.
XXV.

"The two-fold race Anchises understands, The double sires, and owns himself misled By modern error 'twixt two ancient lands.
'O son, long trained in Ilian fates,' he said, This chance Cassandra, she alone, displayed.
Oft to Hesperia and Italia's reign She called us.

Ah! who listened or obeyed?
Who dreamed that Teucrians should Hesperia gain?
Yield we to Phoebus now, nor wisdom's words disdain.' XXVI.

"All hail the speech.