Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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His the indomitable will-power And love in purity and self-sacrifice imbided, His the ultimate victory Seen through eyes that have known Temptations But withstood them. This the heaven-famed hero Who set out from battle-strewn Troy. Lost his wife Creusa, But courageously went on. bearing Anchises On his shoulders. The hand of lulus, his son, Clasped in his own right hand Aeneas, led wearied Trojans To Thrace, where Palinurus Spoke from His bloody tomb. He, the slaughtered son of Priam, Bid them onward to unsular Delos, There to consult the oracle Of honored Phoebus Oppollo To learn Wither destiny beckoned. From amidst the ill-odored crags The voice of the god spoke thus, Ye handy sons of Troy, the land Which first produced your fore-fathers, Beckons you To its fertile bosom. Anchises inspired by Phoebus words Recalled the mid-sea island of Crete, The traditional Trojan progenitory And chosen island of mighty Jupiter Upon which Agreement was made. Sails were raised, and the fleet Of the little Trojan band cut the waves Once more. A second city Troy Was built in Crete, soon to be wrecked With pestilence And utter ruin. i II }

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Cbe Calc of tfje Sfcneiti Aeneas, a rosy laughing youth. The choice of Venus for her son, Whose adventurous spirit Kindled in the god-like eyes Of a celestial. Won immortality. His the humble-bowing piety Yet noble knowledge of the right and wrong, His the full responsibility Of a man, goddess-born and men wrought On earth To serve his kin.

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Then one night in the hero's dreams Appollo reappeared and bade the Trojans Make for Italy, their true land And the kingdom destined by the gods For lulus As his realm. The hastily gathered band set out But were caught in a fearful storm And driven to the Strophades, There to be preyed on by the Harpies, Winged lords Of the island. Caelenus, chief of the Harpy tribe, Forced the stranded to heed her fearful prophecy And take off from Harpinian shores To cruise along the gentle coast of Epirus To the city Of Buthrotum. Here they found Andromache, Former wife of Hector, now the spouse Of Helenus, son of Priam. Gifted prophet and king of the realm, Affording Temporary refuge. Helenus gave vent to his gift And warned his father's former subjects To circle about Sicilia, Since the uncertain strait of Pelorus Was fraught With two-fold danger. On the right fierce Scylla brawled And on the left implacable Charybdis: So with the parting gifts of Helenus, The Trojans embarked once more, and the cruise To Italy Was continued. From the hands of the fierce Cyclops, Achaemenides was rescued as they passed To the port of Drepanum Where aged father Anchiscs was lost To all To be no more. i 12}