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How each man weaves
his web will bring him to glory or to grief.
The picture of filial love touched his soul.
Why this shameful collapse before it all begins?
Why tremble so before the trumpet blares?
O mind of man, knowing not fate or coming doom or how to keep bounds when uplifted with favoring fortune!
Turnus, what no god
Would dare to promise you—your heart's desire—
The course of time has of itself brought on.
Such hopes I had indeed, while Heaven was kind.
Many an ill has time repaired, and the shifting toil of changing years; many a man has Fortune, fitful visitant, mocked, then once more set up upon firm ground.
And dying, dreams of his sweet Argos.
Within that single heart surges mighty shame, and madness mingled with grief, and love stung by fury, and the consciousness of worth.
Don't let your corrosive grief
devour you in silence.
Thinking deeply, and pitying deep in his soul the injustice they suffer.
Here is our home, here is our fatherland.
