. Lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry, and The Armada;. 78 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. The struggling Romans backwardThree lances length and more : And up they took proud Tarquin,And laid him on a shield, And four strong yeomen bare him,Still senseless, from the field. XVIIL But fiercer grew the fighting Around Valerius dead ;For Titus dragged him by the foot, And Aulus by the head. On, Latines, on, quoth Titus, See how the rebels fly !Romans, stand firm! quoth Aulus, And win this fight or die !They must not give Valerius To raven and to kite ;For aye Valerius loathed the wrong, And aye upheld the right
. Lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry, and The Armada;. 78 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. The struggling Romans backwardThree lances length and more : And up they took proud Tarquin,And laid him on a shield, And four strong yeomen bare him,Still senseless, from the field. XVIIL But fiercer grew the fighting Around Valerius dead ;For Titus dragged him by the foot, And Aulus by the head. On, Latines, on, quoth Titus, See how the rebels fly !Romans, stand firm! quoth Aulus, And win this fight or die !They must not give Valerius To raven and to kite ;For aye Valerius loathed the wrong, And aye upheld the right:And for your wives and babies In the front rank he play the men for the good house That loves the people well ! BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. 79 XIX. Then tenfold round the body The roar of battle rose,Like the roar of a burning forest, When a strong north wind backward, and now forward, Rocked furiously the fray,Till none could see Valerius, And none wist where he shivered arms and ensigns Were heaped there in a mound,. 8o LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. And corpses stiff, and dying men That writhed and gnawed the ground ; And wounded horses kicking,And snorting purple foam : Right well did such a couch befitA Consular of Rome. XX. But north looked the Dictator ; North looked he long and hard ;And spake to Caius Cossus, The Captain of his Guard ;Caius, of all the Romans Thou hast the keenest sight ;Say, what through yonder storm of dust Comes from the Latian right ? XXI. Then answered Caius Cossus: I see an evil sight ;The banner of proud Tusculum Comes from the Latian right;I see the plumed horsemen ; And far before the rest BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. 81 I see the dark-grey charger, I see the purple vest ;I see the golden helmet That shines far off like flame ;So ever rides Mamilius, Prince of the Latian name. xxn. Now hearken, Caius Cossus : Spring on thy horses back;Ride as the wolves of Apennine Were all upon thy track ;Haste to our southward battle : An
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