When the siege and the assault had ceased at Troy,
the city consumed in smoldering ash,
the villain who devised the device of treason
was tried for his treachery, the truest on earth.
It was noble Aeneas, and his notable kin,
who conquered kingdoms and became the wardens
of the wealth of the world in the Western Isles.
For rich Romulus arrives in Rome soon after—
with great pomp and pride he expands that city,
and names it his own name, as it now has;
Tirius in Tuscany establishes dwellings;
Langobard in Lombardy lifts up houses.
And far over the French flood, Felix Brutus
builds on the banks of broad Britain’s shores
            with pleasure,
            where war and waste and wonder
            have come in equal measure,
            and oft both bliss and blunder
            have since been sown together.