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Titoxd(?!? - help us) 08:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vergil
This is the excerpt from Vergil, Book IV of The Aeneid (174-188). In my opinion, it deserves to be added to the article.
- Rumor, than whom no evil thing is faster:
- Speed is her life; each step augments her strength.
- Small, a shiver, at first, she soon rears high.
- She walks aground; her head hides in the clouds.
- Men say that Earth, in fury at the gods,
- Bore this last child, a sister to the Giants.
- She is swift of foot and nimble on the wing,
- A horror, misshapen, huge. Beneath each feather
- There lies a sleepless eye (wonder to tell!),
- And a tongue, and speaking lips, and ears erect.
- By night she flies far over the shadowed world
- Gibbering; sleep never comes to rest her eyes.
- By day she sits at the watch high on a roof
- Or lofty tower, and terrifies great cities,
- As much a vessel of slander as crier of truth.
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