human
Can you write me a poem about sigeum and helenus in the style of Leader Scott?
assistant
Sure, here's a poem about sigeum and helenus in the style of Leader Scott:
  _Head Master of King Edward's School, Retford_;
THE FLIGHT FROM TROY                           _Frontispiece_
purpose.
And as he spake he cast his great spear at the Horse, so that it
sounded again. But the Gods would not that Troy should be saved.
Then they bade him tell on, and he said,--
sacrifice. Then did many forebode evil for me. Ten days did the
soothsayer keep silence, saying that he would not give any one to
brought on Troy.'"
forth, till the sea by Sigeum shone with the light. Then, scarce
friends. Come now, let us change our shields, and put upon us the
Then was Aeneas severed from the rest, having with him two only,
Astyanax to his grandfather, climbed on to the roof, and joined
casting the while stones and javelins and all that came to their
hands.
Meanwhile others sought to break down the gates of the palace,
guarded them. Then, as a river bursts its banks and overflows the
So she made the old man sit down in the midst. But lo! there came
And as he spake the old man cast a spear, but aimless and without
peoples and countries in the land of Asia, was slain that night,
Gorgon shield; and how Father Jupiter himself stirs up the enemy
thunder."
father, and the father at the altar. Was it for this, kind Mother
So spake the spirit, and, when Aeneas wept and would have spoken,
But when Aeneas had ended these words, straightway the place was
island of Crete, wherein is a mountain, Ida. There was the first
So they offered sacrifice, a bull to Neptune and a bull to the
honour, and make their city ruler over many nations. Faint not,
mighty men of valour; a land of vineyards and wheat. There is our
So saying, she departed. But when great fear was fallen upon all,
And while she spake there came Helenus from the city with a great
But after certain days were passed, Aeneas, seeing that the wind
remember this, at all places and times, before all other Gods to
worship Juno, that thou mayest persuade her, and so make thy way
And when the seer had ended these sayings he commanded his people
Helenus spake to us. Ply your oars, my comrades, and let us fly
And when it was morning, lo! there came forth from the woods a
Then she went, thinking these things in her heart, to the land of
Deiopeia, I will give thee to wife."
bodies Simois rolled down to the sea!"
quicksands of the Syrtis. And another, in which sailed the men of
Then he bade the waves be still; also he scattered the clouds and
Wherefore endure unto the day of prosperity."
Then her father kissed her once and again, and answered smiling,
To whom Aeneas, "I have not seen nor heard sister of thine, O
whither do ye go?"
heart, or dwell so remote from man, that we are ignorant of these
succour them that suffer."
So saying she led Aeneas into her palace; also she sent to his
dissembled with her tongue, and spake, "Who would not rather have
marvellous creature, moving very swiftly with feet and wings, and
destruction. And now forsooth comes the messenger of Jupiter with
dwellings below to hear thy doom."
house-top. And in her dreams the cruel Aeneas seemed to drive her
Then did Aeneas in great fear start from his sleep, and call his
companions, saying, "Wake, and sit on the benches, and loose the
Then she spake to old Barce, who had been nurse to her husband
dwellings of men and of Gods. And Anna her sister heard it, and
called the people together.
close, struck on a jutting piece of the rock, and the oars were
Then said Entellus, "Think not, Acestes, that I am fearful, or
should go forth to the battle."
altogether consumed, even as a star that shoots across the sky by
Acestes had given horses of Sicily.
And when these came forth there was much shouting and clapping of
But while the men of Troy were busy with the games, Juno prepared
solemnity."
rolling before the wind. And Ascanius, in the midst of his
And while Aeneas thought on these things he slept. And lo! in his
perish, even one life for many."
Thetis and the virgin Panopea.
choosing by lot seven of their children who should be given as a
Misenus, after him, to this day.
Then he took comfort and departed. But when they came near to the
through the seams thereof. Yet did they come safe across.
"Come, and I will show thee them that shall come after thee. That
humble, and to subdue the proud."
called Caieta.
afterwards they set sail, and passed by the island wherein dwelt
Circe, who is the daughter of the Sun. Pleasantly doth she sing,
favourable winds, so that they passed quickly by that land.
beholding the thing, cried, "There cometh a stranger who shall be
Dardanus, and abode in the land of Troy."
Then Ilioneus made answer, saying, "Great King, we have not gone
garments which the women of Troy have worked with their hands."
son-in-law of whom the prophets had spoken. At the last he spake,
grant, men of Troy, that which ye ask. Also we regard these your
horses, and took to Aeneas the gifts and the message of peace.
Then straightway Alecto betook herself to the dwelling of King
mothers pressed their children to their breasts.
whetstone. And in five cities did they set up anvils to make arms
Now the greatest of the chiefs were these:
Next came, with horses that none might surpass, Aventinus, son of
shields on their left arms, and their swords were shaped as
Last of all came Camilla the Volscian, with a great company on
myrtle-wood, as the shepherds are wont.
So the chiefs were gathered together, and much people with them,
Pallantium. These wage war continually with the Latins. To them
So they feasted; and the priests, even the Salii, being in two
dwelling, though indeed it be small and lowly. Think not, then,
Then he led him within the palace, and bade him rest on a couch,
whereon was spread the skin of an African bear.
And even before he had made an end of speaking, Venus gave them a
Etruscans and Tarchon, their leader, had pitched their camp.
Now in the mean time Venus had bestirred herself for her son, for
Gorgon's head, lopped at the nape, with rolling eyes. But the god
thickets even to the ridge of the hill. Their hair was wrought in
And she spread her wings and mounted to heaven by the arch of the
Then Euryalus made answer: "One thing I ask thee more. I have a
Then he gave him his own sword, with its scabbard of ivory, and
But they answered nothing, making haste to fly. Then Volscens
Now there was a tower upon the wall, which the Italians sought to
conquered, now to be besieged again? What madness brought you to
Now there were two youths, sons of Alcanor of Mount Ida, tall as
vengeance for his brother. And he cried, "This is not thy city of
themselves in close array, so that Turnus could not but give way
before them. Just so a lion is driven back by a crowd of men.
soothsayer, came leading a thousand men from Pisa; and Astyr, the
Nymphs, which once had been his ships. And one of these, by name
Pallas made a cruel difference between them, for from Thymber he
battle. And when Halaesus, the companion of Agamemnon, would have
corslet, and pierced the breast of Pallas from front to back. And
Lucagus and Liger. And Liger, who indeed drave the horses, cried
So the battle had an end. And the next day, early in the morning,
Then spake Drances. (Now Drances had great jealousy of Turnus.
But while they disputed there came a messenger unto the palace
Aconteus, and drave him from his horse with the shock, as a
nothing." Then she slew Orsilochus and Butes, mighty men of Troy.
Then did Tarchon the Tuscan rebuke his horsemen, calling each by
defiedst the men of Troy. Neither hath it profited thee to be the
But when Camilla was dead her companions fled, and the Rutulians
Now for a space Turnus spake not for wrath. Then he said, "Be not
Then Amata cried to him, saying, "Fight not, I beseech thee, with
The next day the men of Italy and the men of Troy measured out a
canst, from death; or cause that they break this covenant."
But all the while the righteous Aeneas, having his head bare, and
battle.
Then did the whole array make for the walls of the city. And some
warders at the gates, and cast javelins at them who stood on the
Then also did other ill fortune befall the Latins, for when Queen
But the cry that went up from the city came to the ears of Turnus
Then for a while Turnus stood speechless, and shame and grief and
threatened that he would destroy the city if any should help him.
Then spake Jupiter to Juno, where she sat in a cloud watching the
Then Jupiter sent a Fury from the pit. And she took the form of a
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